The Missing Peace: Meditation as a spiritual path to peace, community and oneness by Chris Whittington (Canterbury Press, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-1-78622-679-2).
“The Missing Peace invites you into a deeper, more spacious way of living — rooted in the Christian wisdom tradition and born of our collective longing to encounter the divine nature of life. Chris Whittington, founder of The School of Contemplative Life, speaks to those feeling overwhelmed by mental noise, disconnected from God, or adrift in a restless, conflicted world.”
To Hell’s Mouth and Back: Pilgrimage, suffering and hope by Trystan Owain Hughes (BRF, £9.99 (£8.99); 978-1-80039-426-1).
“After a gruelling 140-mile pilgrimage walking across the rugged terrain of North Wales, Trystan Owain Hughes finds himself facing another, very different pilgrimage as he recovers from a serious injury sustained on the walk.
In To Hell’s Mouth and Back he explores his experience of suffering, considering how God can redeem and transform pain and disability, and examines how common experiences of pilgrimage are echoed in the challenges of our life journeys. Along the way, the reader is led to consider the journeys we all face, as we search for God’s presence and hope in our joys and pains.”
The Bible: A global history by Bruce Gordon (Basic Books, £14.99 (£13.49); 978-1-529-38346-1). New in paperback
“Bruce Gordon traces the Bible’s astounding journey from its emergence as a codex in the second century, to the Reformation, to the spectacular growth of Christianity in the Global South today. . .
Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible is a sweeping history of this sacred book told through the stories of its diverse human encounters in search of the divine — revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.”
Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.