A Shaking Reality : Daily Reflections for Advent
Peter B Price
DLT 2018
Sometimes even the the most faithful of hearts
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 ‘wha
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
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 wa
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 hav
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.
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 ca
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 conve
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 cer
Spiritual Accompaniment
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Spiritual Accompaniment and Counselling: Journeying with psyche and soul
Edited by Peter Masden Gubi
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015 paper
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 ana
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
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
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. Fa
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
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
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 –
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
Forewo
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 &
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