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30 August 2024

This week’s selection: sermons on creation and climate; finding a truer relationship with the earth; and biblical characters who grappled with reality

Preaching for the Planet: Sermons on creation and climate by Jenny Wilson (Sacristy Press, £14.99 (£13.49); 978-1-78959-355-6).

“Sermons preached by Jenny Wilson, Canon Precentor of St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide. The introductory chapter explores ideas about preaching with a particular focus on preaching for the planet at this time of climate crisis.”

The Great Search: Turning to earth and soul in the quest for healing and home by John Philip Newell (Wild Goose Publications, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-1-80432-346-5).

The Great Search recognises the widespread collapse of religion as we have known it. There is a vast diaspora of people living in religious exile from their inherited traditions of faith, and many of them are in search of deeper meaning and a truer relationship with Earth and one another. This book explores the wisdom of nine prophetic teachers from the past, some of whom anticipated this era of religious exile, and all of whom addressed the spiritual yearnings of this time when the very future of humanity’s relationship with Earth is imperilled.”

Hero, Lover, Daughter, Queen: Finding yourself in the Bible by Lavinia Byrne and Jane McBride (Canterbury Press, £12.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £10.39); 978-1-78622-593-1).

“The Bible is a book of stories par excellence and is wholly realistic about human nature. Hero, Lover, Daughter, Queen retells ten timeless stories of biblical characters who grappled with the reality of the human condition and reached beyond themselves for understanding from within the messy confines of lives like ours.”

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