Search Results
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Intercessions for Years A, B and C Book - Presentation of Christ in the Temple
by SPCK - Ian Black
Presentation of Christ in the Temple – Years A, B and C (2 February, or the Sunday falling between 28 January and 3 February) Lord of hosts We praise your holy name. Lord, your faithful servants Simeon and Anna watched in hope for the fulfilment of your promises. Give to the Chur…
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 9 Year A
Gazing on the Gospels Year A - Proper 9 Year A
by SPCK - Judith Dimond
Proper 9 - Year A Meditation on Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Gaze on these children playing in the marketplace. Children are the same the whole world over, and in every era. Today they would be in the home corner, playing make- believe games. ‘Let’s play weddings,’ says Kelly, who’s …
Meeting God in MARK - Introduction -1
Meeting God in MARK - Introduction -1
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction I am very much indebted to SPCK for once again being willing to make available to a wider audience what started as a short series of Holy Week talks in Canterbury Cathedral (in 2010). The text has been transcribed from recordings and I have left most of it unaltered,…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Foreword and Acknowledgements
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Foreword and Acknowledgements
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Foreword One of the things I welcome about this creative and timely book is its confidence that Scripture is the starting point for thinking about disability. For some decades activists and academics have been debating disability issues, often expressing radical and new ideas. Ye…
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Annunciation: a poem
Walking Backwards to Christmas - Annunciation: a poem
by SPCK - Stephen Cottrell
Annunciation: a poem There is only one thing that prevents The gentle movement, heaven into earth: Not the fear which godly greeting brings, Nor cold presumption (God could never speak), Nor empty tomb, nor barren heart,…
journeying with mark yr B - Further reading and resources
journeying with mark yr B - Further reading and resources
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Further reading and resources There are many good commentaries on Mark’s Gospel. The one you choose will be down to your own personal taste. The list below is not exhaustive but includes some of the best commentaries on Mark...
journeying with mark yr B - Copyright acknowledgements
journeying with mark yr B - Copyright acknowledgements
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Copyright acknowledgements The publisher and author acknowledge with thanks permission to reproduce extracts from the following. Every effort has been made to seek permission to use copyright material reproduced in this book. The publisher apologizes for those cases where permiss…
Transforming Preaching - About the author
Transforming Preaching - About the author
by SPCK - David Heywood
About the author David Heywood is Director of Pastoral Studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon. He has served in parish ministry in Gloucestershire, south London and the Potteries. Before ordination, he trained as a teacher and taught for three years in Luton, Bedfordshire. He has a d…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Holding an accessibility audit
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Holding an accessibility audit
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
6 Living with diversity There are a number of accessibility audits online which a church can use to check out barriers to access for disabled people. Detailed notes on this topic are not within the scope of this book, but some basic ideas are outlined here…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - From the Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment – Part 2, Section IIB, 4
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - From the Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment – Part 2, Section IIB, 4
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
From the Lausanne 2010 Cape Town Commitment – Part 2, Section IIB, 4 People with disabilities form one of the largest minority groups in the world, estimated to exceed 600 million. [The latest World Health Organization figures put this at over one billion.] The majority of these …
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Who’s disabled? Disability in the UK The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the subsequent Equality Act 2010 both define a disabled person as someone who ‘has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry o…
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Quoted on the Disability Wall
Enabling Church: inclusion of disabled people - Quoted on the Disability Wall
by SPCK - Gordon Temple and Lin Ball
Quoted on the Disability Wall Laurence Banks Laurence Banks is Deaf. He has worked with Go! Sign for over ten years and is currently employed as their part-time ministry director. He preaches and teaches around the UK and overseas and has recently completed a theology degree at t…
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Further reading and resources
Journeying with Matthew Lectionary Year A - Further reading and resources
by SPCK - Woodward, Gooder and Pryce
Further reading and resources There are many good commentaries on Matthew’s Gospel. The one you choose will be down to your own personal taste. The list below is not exhaustive but gives you a sense of some of the most important works...
Still Caring - Acknowledgments
Still Caring - Acknowledgments
by SPCK - Dorothy M Stewart
Acknowledgements Still Caring Christian meditations and prayers One evening at church, I noticed that a friend was weeping. She had been having a really rough time trying to care at home for her husband after a spell in hospital. Now she was at the end of her tether and strugglin…
Still Caring - About the author