Following on from her bestselling Women of Holy Week, Paula Gooder uses her extensive biblical expertise and storytelling skills to recreate the events of the nativity, from the promise of a future people to Sarah, to the presentation in the temple and the encounter with Anna, the prophet. The story is told from the perspective of nine women in all including Mary, Elizabeth, Rachel, and others whom scripture records or tradition has imagined, such as the innkeeper's wife. As we hear the familiar stories afresh through their words, the wonder of the incarnation and its consequences for good and for ill, come to vivid life in a new way. Each story is accompanied by a painting by the priest-artist, Ally Barrett. This will be widely welcomed by all who love Paula's writing and respect her biblical expertise as well as those looking for fresh inspiration for seasonal services from Advent to Candlemas.

When faced with times of crisis or challenge, many people turn to self-help for support. But what about Christians - how can we find strength not merely in self-help but in God's help?

A Way through the Wilderness is a five-session course which explores God's promise to comfort his people as they struggle through life's wildernesses.

With extensive guidance for leaders as well as for group members, this is an inspiring choice for house, cell and Lent groups.

Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In late 2019, his fascination with old church buildings turned into a life-changing encounter with the God he had never believed in, and he was baptised in the Anglican church.

In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. As he finds God in the ruined factories and polluted canals of his home city, Jonah is heckled over etymology, angels appear in tube stations, and Jesus sits atop a multi-story car park. Cathedrals are trans, trans people are cathedrals, and amidst it all God reaches out to meet us exactly where we are.

Jay's poetry explores belief in the modern world and offers a perspective on queer faith that will appeal not only to Christians, but young members of the LGBT+ community who are interested in faith but unsure of where to start.

'When someone hits the ground running, there is all the superficial attraction of movement and progress. But there is no guarantee that they are going in the right direction.'

In Hit The Ground Kneeling, Stephen Cottrell takes common statements about leadership - statements that we often take for granted - and challenges them in the light of the Christian faith and Christian perspectives on leadership.

Wherever you exercise leadership (at work, organizing a home, or doing something like coaching a local football team), the author playfully suggests some models of leadership that can help you - whether or not you reckon you're a Christian.

In the style of her bestselling Phoebe, Paula Gooder uses her extensive biblical expertise to retell the events of the Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension through the eyes of nine female characters she imagines accompanying Jesus during these momentous days.

Accompanied by nine colour illustrations, each story brings to life the tension, drama and shock of the events of Holy Week, banishing any over-familiarity and helping readers enter into the Passion narrative in a deeper, more meaningful way.

Originally given as a series of addresses at Southward Cathedral during Holy Week 2021, these nine stories are for all who long to encounter Jesus afresh through the Easter Story.

This five-part group study booklet is designed to encourage and equip local church communities who are contemplating setting up a pioneering church community, but are unsure how to get going or what will be involved.

It opens up the wise insights and practical know-how of Dave Male's book How to Pioneer to the wider church, introducing the basics of pioneer ministry to PCCs and congregations while encouraging their supportive participation. The booklet consists of five group sessions based on chapters of the original book:

1. You can do this
2. Focusing on your mission
3. Adapting to your context
4. Creating Jesus-centred communities
5. Enabling disciples of Jesus

All pioneer enterprises depend on the active support of the home church team. This booklet will help generate essential backing for local mission projects.

Reflections for Daily Prayer has nourished thousands of Christians for a decade with its inspiring and informed weekday Bible reflections. Now, in response to demand, Reflections for Sundays combines material from over the years with new writing to provide high-quality reflections on the Principal Readings for Sundays and major Holy Days.

Contributors include some of the very best writers from across the Anglican tradition who have helped to establish it as one of the leading daily devotional volumes today.

For each Sunday and major Holy Day in Year C, Reflections for Sundays offers:

- full lectionary details for the Principle Service
- a reflection on the Old Testament reading
- a reflection on the Epistle
- a reflection on the Gospel

It also contains a substantial introduction to the Gospels of Luke, written by renowned Bible teacher Paula Gooder.

Found in Common Worship: Times and Seasons, The Way of the Cross is a series of scripture-based devotions for personal or group use in Lent and Holy Week. Similar in intent to the traditional Stations of the Cross, it focuses wholly on the biblical narrative of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus.

This seasonal companion provides the sequence of fifteen meditations appears in full, including opening and concluding prayers. Each is accompanied by three short reflections from different perspectives by three of today's very best spiritual writers:

- Paula Gooder offers reflections on the scriptural narratives;
- Stephen Cottrell considers the story from the perspective of personal discipleship;
- Philip North explores the story's challenge to mission and witness.

The services may be prayed individually, in groups, churches or in religious communities. Drawing on the daily Bible readings laid out in the Common Worship Lectionary, they allow Anglicans to link their personal devotions into the shared prayer life of the Church.

As well as the more traditional services of Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer, Daily Prayer also offers Prayer During the Day, especially designed for those new to regular liturgical prayer. Each service contains the three key elements of praise, intercession and engagement with Scripture. Prayers are included for both Ordinary Time and the seasons of the Christian year.

It contains:

• The Calendar
• Prayer During the Day
• Forms of Penitence
• Morning and Evening Prayer
• Night Prayer (Compline)
• Prayers of Intercession
• The Litany
• Collects and Refrains
• Canticles
• The Psalter
• The Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed on the inside back cover for quick reference
  

Taking a sensible, down-to-earth approach, it offers:

• Sample forms of intercession based on Common Worship
• Alternatives to the more common forms
• Important dos and don'ts
• Ideas for creative ways to develop intercessions
• Practical exercises and checklists

Experiencing God's Love is a short study guide that aims to deepen our understanding and first-hand experience of living a life of faith.

It explores five biblical images of the ways in which our lives are changed by walking with Christ: Being securely rooted in prayer and scriptures; Cleansed through baptism, confession and forgiveness; Enlightened through worship, mission and growth in holiness; Tended through care for one another and the world; Welcomed in the Eucharist and in the fellowship of the Church.

Each chapter explores one of these images in the Psalms and the Gospels, and in popular culture, supported by free online audio introductions to each session. Opening and closing worship, discussion starters, questions, and a leader's guide are all included making this ideal for Lent groups or as a Christian discipleship course at any time of year.

Beyond the Children's Corner is a practical handbook to help churches become more welcoming to children and families in worship. It encourages PCCs and ministry teams to reflect on the spiritual needs of children, the pastoral needs of families, and how to remove barriers and manage change effectively.

Based on multiple training sessions and extensive casework, informed by research by the Church of England's Life Events team and the Methodist Church, it explores:

- The changing needs of modern families;

- What tells you it's time for change;

- 'Quick wins' to make the worship space more welcoming and spiritually imaginative;

- Engaging children in spiritually nourishing worship;

- Children and contemplative worship - what to do about noise;

- Building and sustaining relationships with families and children.

Many books on All-Age Worship focus the service itself. Beyond the Children's Corner explores how children and adults can be truly integrated as the church community, covering parents' perspectives, the church building and the challenge of change as well as what happens in worship.

It is designed for churches and individuals seeking a simple and portable daily office book and complements the existing volumes Time to Pray which includes outlines for Prayer During the Day and Night Prayer, and also the Morning and Evening Prayer on Sunday booklet.