Pastoral and Practical Theology

Does Belief change in Old Age?

On re-reading - Belief and Ageing :Spiritual pathways in later life Peter G. Coleman (Editor) Paperback, 192 pages Policy Press Bris

From 1998 through to 2009, I had the privilege of working with many hundreds of older people in an Almshouse charity. We lived t

From the Shores of Silence Conversations in Feminist Practical Theology Edited by Ashley Cocksworth, Rachel Starr and Stephen Burns with N

I remember one of my university teachers sitting in on a seminar that I was leading some 20 years ago. He was attentive and appeared to be m

Waking Up to God: Rediscovering Faith in Post-Pandemic Times by Neil Richardson Sacristy Press 2022 Neil Richard

I have just returned for leading a retreat for twenty women and men supporting them as they prepare for their life as clergy. They talked abou

In a Glass Darkly: The Bible, Reflection and Everyday Life Zoe Bennett, Christopher Rowland SCM Press £25 (978-0-334-05422-1) Moments o

Practical theology and Pierre-Andre Liege : Radical Dominican and Vatican II Pioneer Nicholas Bradbury AshGate 2015 £65.00 ISBN 9781472418708

Conundrums in Practical Theology. By Joyce Ann Mercer and Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Boston: Brill, 2016. 320 pages. $76. (PBK). I

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

Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2015; 280 pages; £19.99 ISBN 9781849054973 I review this book (the second week of July 2016) when two particular conve

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