Here at Sarum College our aspirational strapline is Learning to nourish the human spirit ( see something of our work at www.sarum.ac.uk) and as I complete the first year of my presence, engagement and leadership of the College I have been much intrigued about what it is that
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Andrew Walker, Notes From A Wayward Son: A Miscellany
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Andrew Walker, Notes From A Wayward Son: A Miscellany,
ed. by Andrew D. Kinsey (Cascade, 2015)
This is an intriguing, stimulating and rewarding book that offers a space within which Andrew Walkers rather original and distinctive voice can be heard. Some will know Walker thro
How Do We Access the Spiritual?
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How Do We Access The Spiritual
Edited by Jonathan Pye, Peter Sedgwick and Andrew Todd, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015; 280 pages; £19.99
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
Longing for a deeper Church ?
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Andrew Walker, Notes From A Wayward Son: A Miscellany, ed. by Andrew D. Kinsey (Cascade, 2015), 322pp. no price marked. ISBN 978 – 1– 62564 – 161 – 8.
This is an intriguing, stimulating and rewarding book that offers a space within which Andrew Walkers rather orig
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
Facilitating Spiritual Reminiscence for People with dementia
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A Learning Guide by Elizabeth MacKinlay and Corrine Trevitt
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015
I have recently experienced the hospitalisation of a close relative and, once again, have been surprised by the culture of care in our Hospitals. There is a kind of functionalism that
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 ove
Sarum College: A Brief History
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From the early Middle Ages, Salisbury was an important centre for theological training, its great cathedral and Close attracting students and scholars from the whole of Europe.
The history of theological study begins with St Osmund and the completion of the first cathedral at
What kind of leadership??
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Crucible : The Journal of Christian Social Ethics April 2016
Editorial
What kind of Leadership?
The four articles that follow in this edition of Crucible all take leadership as a starting point to reflect upon the nature of the Church and its exercise of power a
Sarum Lectures 2016 Renewing Hope – Pray, Serve, Grow.
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The Sarum lectures have a long and distinguished history in the life of the Cathedral Close. They are a partnership between Sarum College and the Cathedral and this year we are looking forward to four lectures from our Diocesan Bishop, the Right Rev Nicholas Holtham. Here is an
Gravity, Context and Choice
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Ministry in an Urban Context.
The photograph above is one of the many aerial views of the city of Southampton available via Google images. A large group of our ministry students have just left the College after a weekend exploring the context and challenge of urban ministr
Good Disagreement? Grace and Truth in a Divided Church
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Good Disagreement? Grace and Truth in a Divided Church
Andrew Atherstone and Andrew Goddard (Editors) Lion Hudson 2015
There is a little bit of the playground and its visceral realities still in all of us. We prefer to get our own way and sometimes go to some lengths to ach
Ageing – an inner and outer journey
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TO SEE THE FLOWERS
Don't go outside your house to see flowers.
My friend, don't bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside t
Learning: enlivening and enlarging?
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Sarum College is now almost empty with our third-year students from our Ministry programme having returned back to their homes and families. I have to sa
On Reaching a Certain Age !
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'Middle age starts much later than previously thought - at the age of 55, research suggests' - this is the rather helpful advice sent to me by a friend on this my 55th birthday. Born on 23 February 1961 is no arguing any more with the realities of time and age and numbers. For t
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