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Christianity: fact or fiction?

Alain De Botton: Religion for atheists
G K Chesterton: Orthodoxy
Francis Collins: The language of God – a scientist presents evidence for belief
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Owen Gingerich: God's Universe
John Lennox: Gunning for God - why the New Atheists are missing the target
John Lennox: God's Undertaker - has science buried God?
Alister McGrath: The Twilight of Atheism
Alister McGrath: Why God won't go away
Alison Morgan : The Wild Gospel - bringing truth to life
Alison Morgan : What happens when we die?
Lesslie Newbigin: Proper Confidence - faith, doubt and certainty in Christian discipleship
Nick Spencer: Darwin and God
Nick Spencer & Denis Alexander: Rescuing Darwin - God and evolution in Britain today
John Toland:Christianity not mysterious

Prayer and the spiritual life

Giuseppe Amorth: An Exorcist's story
Neil Anderson: The Bondage breaker
John Dalrymple: Simple prayer
Jack Deere: The Beginner's guide to the gift of prophecy
Jack Deere: Surprised by the voice of God
Gordon Fee: Paul, the Spirit and the people of God
Richard Foster: Life with God - a transforming new approach to Bible reading
Selwyn Hughes : Discovering your spiritual gifts
Francis McNutt: Deliverance from evil spirits - a practical manual
Francis McNutt: Healing
Henri Nouwen: The Wounded healer - ministry in contemporary society
George Otis: The Twilight labyrinth - why does spiritual darkness linger where it does?
John Owen: The Spiritual Gifts
Leanne Payne: Listening prayer 
Leanne Payne: Restoring the Christian soul through healing prayer
Eugene Peterson: The Jesus Way - a conversation in following Jesus
Simon Ponsonby : God inside out - an in-depth study of the Holy Spirit
David Pytches: Come Holy Spirit - learning how to minister in power
David Pytches: Prophecy in the local church
Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI): The Yes of Jesus Christ - Spiritual exercises in Faith, Hope and Love
Richard Rohr : A Spirituality for the two halves of life
Mark Stibbe: Know your spiritual gifts
Angela Tilby : The Seven Deadly Sins - their origin in the teaching of Evagrius the hermit
W H Vanstone: The Stature of waiting
John Wimber: Power healing
Michael Yaconelli: Dangerous wonder – the adventure of childlike faith
Philip Yancey : Prayer - does it make any difference?
D Zohar & I Marshall : Spiritual intelligence 

 

Ministry in the context of our culture

Gary Macy :The Hidden History of Women's Ordination - Female Clergy in the Medieval West
Roland Allen : Missionary methods - St Paul's or ours?
C Bartholomew and T Moritz: Christ and consumerism - critical reflections on the spirit of our age
David Bosch: Believing in the future
Paul Bayes and Tim Sledge : Mission-shaped parish - traditional church in a changing context
Walter Brueggemann: Biblical perspectives on evangelism
Walter Brueggemann: Finally comes the poet - daring speech for proclamation
Walter Brueggemann: Texts under negotiation - the Bible and postmodern imagination
Frederick Buechner : Telling the Truth - the gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale
D A Carson: Becoming conversant with the emerging church
Neil Cole : Organic Church - growing faith where life happens
Graham Cray: Mission-shaped church - church planting and fresh expressions of church
Steven Croft (ed): Mission-shaped questions - defining issues for today's Church
Steven Croft: Transforming communities
Alain de Botton : Religion for Atheists - a non-believer's guide to the uses of religion
John Drane: Faith in a changing culture - creating churches for the next century
John Drane: The McDonaldization of the Church - spirituality, creativity and the future of the church
John Drane: After McDonaldization
John Finney : Emerging evangelism
Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch : The Shaping of Things to Come - innovation and mission for the C21st Church
Michael Frost & Alan Hirsch : ReJesus - a Wild Messiah for a missional church
Michael Frost : Exiles - living missionally in a post-Christian culture
Sally Gaze : Mission-shaped and Rural - growing churches in the countryside
Eddie Gibbs & I Coffey: Church next 
Eddie Gibbs & Ryan Bolger : Emerging Churches - creating Christian community in postmodern cultures
David Goodhew: Church Growth in Britain 1980 to the Present
Os Guinness: Finding the truth - living free in a world of lies, hype and spin
Os Guinness: Prophetic Untimeliness - a challenge to the idol of relevance
Alan Hirsch: The Forgotten Ways
Susan Hope : Mission-shaped Spirituality - the transforming power of mission
John Hull : Mission-shaped church - a theological response
Bob Jackson : Hope for the Church - contemporary strategies for growth
Oliver James: Affluenza - how to be successful and stay sane
Alan Jamieson : A Churchless faith - faith journeys beyond the churches
Philip Jenkins: The next Christendom - the coming of global Christianity
Gerard Kelly: Getting a grip on the future without losing your hold on the past
Mary Jo Leddy: Radical Gratitude
Robert Lewis : The Church of irresistible influence
Brian McLaren : Everything must change
Brian McLaren : A Generous Orthodoxy
Alison Morgan : The Wild Gospel - bringing truth to life
Alison Morgan : The Word on the Wind - renewing confidence in the gospel
Michael Moynagh : emergingchurch.intro
Stuart Murray : Church after Christendom
Lesslie Newbigin: Foolishness to the Greeks - the gospel and western culture
Lesslie Newbigin: The Gospel in a pluralist society
Laurence Singlehurst: The Gospel message today - language that connects in communicating the gospel
James Thwaites : The Church beyond the Congregation
Frank Viola: Finding organic church
Miroslav Volf : Free of Charge - giving and forgiving in a culture stripped of grace
Rowan Williams: Lost icons - reflections on cultural bereavement
Tom Wright : Simply Christian

 

 

Renewal of the Church for mission

William Abraham: The Logic of Renewal
Josephine Bax: The Good Wine - spiritual renewal in the Church of England
Raniero Cantalamessa : Come, Creator Spirit
Raniero Cantalamessa : The Mystery of God's Word
Mark Cartledge : Encountering the Spirit - the charismatic tradition
Jose Comblin : The Holy Spirit and Liberation
Tracy Cotterell & Neil Hudson : Leading a whole-life disciple-making church
John Finney: Fading Splendour? A new model of renewal
Brian Hathaway : Beyond renewal - the kingdom of God
Neil Hudson : Imagine Church - releasing whole-life disciples
Walter Kaiser : Revive us again - Biblical insights for encouraging spiritual renewal
William Kay: Personality and Renewal
Alison Morgan : Renewal - what is it, and what is it for?  
Simon Ponsonby : More
Tom Smail et al: Charismatic renewal - the search for a theology
Howard A Snyder : Radical renewal - the problem of wineskins today
Jean-Jacques Suurmond: Word and Spirit at play

 

 

Ministry in Africa

Basil Davidson : The Africans - an entry to cultural history
Vincent Donovan : Christianity Rediscovered - an epistle from the Masai
Ben Freeth : Mugabe and the White African
Mary Kingsley : Travels in West Africa, 1897
Matthew Parris: As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God (a Times article)
Tepilit ole Saitoti :The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior
 

 

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