Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler (Eerdmans, £19.99 (£17.99); 978-0-8028-7909-7).

“Through a deep reading of the incarnation narratives of the New Testament and other relevant scriptural texts, Amy Peeler shows how the Bible depicts a God beyond gender and a savior who, while embodied as a man, is the unification in one person of the image of God that resides in both male and female.”


Love Makes Things Happen: An invitation to Christian living by Jennifer Strawbridge, Jarred Mercer and Peter Groves (SCM Press, £14.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £11.99); 978-0-334-05993-6).

“Following on from its predecessor, Love Makes No Sense, each chapter in Love Makes Things Happen deals with central issues of Christian practice, and presents an introduction to Christian doctrine without losing focus of the lived Christian life. The book sets forth central aspects of Christian living and practice that are the natural expression of those doctrines when they are understood properly as a lived phenomenon.”


Cathedral Treasures of England and Wales by Janet Gough (Scala, £14.95 (£13.45); 978-1-78551-453-1).

“This beautifully illustrated new volume tells the stories behind 50 remarkable artefacts - one for each cathedral - that have been preserved by the cathedrals of the Church of England and the Church in Wales.”


Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.

Short notice: Waking Up to God: Rediscovering faith in post-pandemic times, by Neil Richardson

NEIL RICHARDSON, a former Principal of Wesley College, Bristol, and President of the Methodist Conference, offers an invitation to faith in Waking Up to God: Rediscovering faith in post-pandemic times (Sacristy Press, £14.99 (£13.50); 978-1-78959-237-5). He tells the personal story behind the book, before moving on to chapters on the Bible, Jesus, theism and atheism, a “more human Church”, humanity, God and life, and the future.