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Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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You love your husband. But sometimes it feels like you’re the only one trying. You remind. You plan. You make everything run smoothly- and yet the more effort you put in, the more distant it seems. In The Surrendered Wife, you’ll learn why when you stop trying to manage- and fix-things, your partner will lean in. The tender touches will return and he will help without your having to ask. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. Effective? Millions of women say yes. The Surrendered Wife equips you to: Say the simple phrases that inspire your husband to step up, bring back the man you … Continue reading Finding intimacy, passion, and Peace with a Man

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Converts interpreted Rome to England

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The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome. In the first half of the century, Catholicism attracted more than half a million converts among them fascinating artists, writers and thinkers, after it became an intellectual and spiritual fashion. These men and women joined the church, and what difference did conversion make to them? Henry Scobie a Catholic policeman in wartime Sierra Leone finds himself mathematical blind, as it would be a mortal sin for him not to go to Mass … Continue reading Converts interpreted Rome to England

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Grace is out making way for rage and fury

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Communion is an intimate account of why Vice President JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith. JD Vance was brought up to believe in God. In Hillbilly Elegy, the book that made him famous, he wrote of how, aged six his biological father told him that he had asked God for signs that an adoption was in JD’s interest. “Those signs apparently appeared, and I became the legal son of Bob, a man I’d known for barely a year.” Vance was mostly brought up by his grandmother, “Mamaw”, who felt she … Continue reading Grace is out making way for rage and fury

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Confession was therapy sin was diagnosis

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Historian Peter Jones travels through Europe’s archives and libraries to uncover a lost psychology: a world where confession was therapy, sin was diagnosis, and the Seven Deadly Sins served as a man of the human mind. What can Twelfth-century monk teach us about burnout, envy or despair? From the deserts of Egypt to the Vatican Library, from Dante’s Florence to Catherine of Siena’s cell, Jones introduces the thinkers, mystics and rebels who wrestled with the same questions that preoccupy us now: How to live with our flaws, forgive ourselves, and find meaning amid confusion. Medieval lives and landscapes come vividly … Continue reading Confession was therapy sin was diagnosis

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Spiritual Reality

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Rev Dr Howard Worsley is a researcher, teacher and priest. With an English degree from Manchester, he pursued an MA in Theology at Nottingham, then a PHD in Education at Birmingham. This busy man is currently working as the Diocesan Director of Education for Southwell and Nottingham, as well as being the Chair of the National Association of Church Directors.  He has 3 sons, and loves exploring the world by canoe, bike or foot. In this book, he intends to uncover original visions seen by children which is sometimes termed “Spiritual Reality”.  To create this book, thirty families were selected after … Continue reading Spiritual Reality

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Money, power and family feud: Where getting everything you want costs everything you love

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Rupert Murdoch’s business gave him control over his children, as they wanted his approval and so they fell into his trap. When Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world’s most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots. Estrangements between famous fathers and their children are often grabbing news headlines: King Charles and Prince Harry, David andf Brooklyn … Continue reading Money, power and family feud: Where getting everything you want costs everything you love

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Pursuit of truth from the other side of the camera

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Werner Herzog, the legendary filmmaker and author’s deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth- and how to find it in out “post-truth” era? We wade through the troubling realm of what we see and read, and wonder what AI might have in store for us. For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and non-fiction, documentary and drama, reality and imagination. Herzog definitely goes beyond the appearance of what is … Continue reading Pursuit of truth from the other side of the camera

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Who Knows What: The Paradoxes of human behaviour

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Harvard psychologist, one of the world’s greatest thinkers, and cognitive scientist, Steven Pinker, in When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows, explores common knowledge- a concept deriving from game theory that describes the state in which not only does everyone knows something, but everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows. This idea according to Pinker “illuminates many enigmas of our public affairs and personal lives” and constitutes “a keystone in understanding the social world”. Pinker shows us how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum, it sounds impossible, but we do it all the same. This awareness which we … Continue reading Who Knows What: The Paradoxes of human behaviour

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Ultimate hope for survival

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of five novels, Sara Gruen, from western North Carolina, whose works have been translated into forty-three languages and have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Water for Elephants was adapted into a major motion picture in 2011 starring Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattison, and Christoph Waltz and then into a smash Broadway musical. Jacob Jankowski, as a young man, was tossed by fate onto a rickety train. There is preparation for a circus across the street from the nursing home where Jacob lives. He is not sure of his exact age but … Continue reading Ultimate hope for survival

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Principles of enjoying a fulfilled and contented life

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Charles Handy, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher, offers wit and words of wisdom from a lifetime’s thinking on management. He did have even a stroke as he approached the age of 90 dimmed his intellectual curiosity or his immense zest for life. The View from Ninety is written from the vantage point of a contemplative old age and drawing on his articles for The Idler, he shares his thoughts on the big questions with which we all grapple. Drawing in part on his own experience, in part on the wisdom of others, he sets out the … Continue reading Principles of enjoying a fulfilled and contented life