A Shaking Reality : Daily Reflections for Advent
Peter B Price
DLT 2018
Sometimes even the the most faithful of hearts might wonder how our religious words, images and metaphors make a difference. How do they shape our understanding of the worl
Not for Profit – what kind of education will equip us for the future ?
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Looking backwards and wondering ‘what if’ is an exercise that requires care and some measure of wisdom. However, we need to engage in the ‘what if’ questions to nurture reflexivity and so challenge ourselves to be energised by the possibilities of change.
So here is
Reminiscence Work with Older Adults
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The Multi-Sensory Reminiscence Activity Book
52 Weekly Group Session Plans for Working with Older Adults
Sophie Jopling and Sarah Mousley
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2017 ISBN: 9781785922398
There are few of us in early middle age who do not know someone who is l
Holiday reading (1) Gordon Brown My life, Our Times Bodley Head 2017.
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Having successfully downsized my living and therefore 'storage' arrangements I think twice about buying a book! I was, however, immediately drawn to this political autobiography, not least because on the two occasions I met Gordon Brown I found
Waiting and Wondering
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I find myself along with others caught up in quite absurd activity as ‘ the Christmas rush’ bears down. I discover that in this maddness I have no evenings free before Christmas and wonder how much of this is of my own making! An early flurry of sleet and the promise of
Lent Books 2017
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Here is my wander through a number of Lent books offering you a little glimpse into some of what is available.
Justin Welby, Dethroning Mammon.
This short book well organised into six chapters and offers the possibility of a basis for lent study on the challenging questi
Vulnerability and Care: Christian Reflections on the Philosophy of Medicine by Andrew Sloane
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I have recently seen at close hand the work a busy acute hospital having to deal with an older person suffering multiple challenges to well-being caused in the main by intense confusion as a result of the Alzheimer's disease. The result was shocking and frustrating. Although,of
How do we access the spiritual?
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015; 280 pages; £19.99 ISBN 9781849054973
I review this book (the second week of July 2016) when two particular conversations were at the forefront of my mind. The first was the smooth transition between Cameron and May into 10 Downing Street and
Improving our understanding of Dementia ?
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I am gathering together a small collection of books all published by Jessica Kingsley who is certainly one of the most innovative and ground-breaking publishers working in this field.
Their list covering a range o
Spiritual Accompaniment
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Spiritual Accompaniment and Counselling: Journeying with psyche and soul
Edited by Peter Masden Gubi
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015 paperback 192 pages £16.99
Here at Sarum College ( www.sarum.ac.uk ) our two year certificate in spiritual direction is very pop
Performing Pastoral Care
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Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music. Using musical analogies, the author provides a new way of understanding and practising pastoral care, grounded in practical theology. Challenging o
Jim Birren
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REMEMBERING JIM BIRREN
One of the towering figures in gerontology has died : James E. Birren, founding
Director of the Andrus Gerontology Center, at the University of Southern California,
died at the age of 97. His achievements were extraordinary Foremost amo
What kind of Ministry? Chaplaincy as Mission
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Chaplaincy Ministry and the Mission of the Church
Victoria Slater, SCM Press 2015, 160 pages, pbk, no price marked, ISBN 978 0 334 05315 6
There are three distinctive and attractive characteristics of this book. The first is the authors’ skilful ability to open up h
The Quest for meaning in later life
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P. G. Coleman, D. Koleva and J. Bornat, eds., Ageing, Ritual and Social
Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western
Europe. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. Pp. xviii,
283. Pb. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4094-5215-7.
This volume is a compell
Sarum College Bookshop : Book of the Month
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'Between Dark and Daylight' by Joan Chittister
I am busy at the moment embarking upon a major exercise of downsizing in preparation for my move to Sarum. This must include books! The process is illuminating. What do we attach ourselves to? All this ‘stuff’ faces me
Writing the Self: David Lodge
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‘Quite a good time to be born’ – by David Lodge
As an avid reader of biography and autobiography it is intriguing, I think, to wonder about the criteria of choice at work in the writing of such texts. Put simply, what you put in and what you leave out? What might
Strange Glory : A life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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‘Strange Glory’ by Charles Marsh
It is always extraordinary to be reminded about the gaps – and sometimes very significant indeed – in our knowledge. The life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of these areas. Born in 1906 and executed by the Nazi regime i
Understanding Age? Face the Future….
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It has been a great pleasure to offer a Forward to this stimulating contribution the literature on old age by the delightful William Cutting
Foreword - (Face the Future. Book 2. Challenges, Joy and Faith for Seniors)
Like many of you reading this book I am thankful fo
Psalms Redux & Prayers for the Day by Carla Grosch-Miller
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Here is a wonderful book to look out for from a skilled and humane theologian and my commendation for my friend Carla
Psalms Redux & Prayers for the Day by Carla Grosch-Miller
We human beings become so easily distracted and even bored with the familiar. Th
the costs of trying to avoid the inevitable
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From todays Church Times
James Woodward on the costs of trying to avoid the inevitable
Should We Live Forever? The ethical ambiguities of aging
Gilbert Meilaender
Eerdmans £11.99
HUMAN beings generally desire life. Most of us are grateful for the good gift that is our l