Stories of Faith, Hope and Love: the church of tomorrow: imagining the Kingdom of God (DLT, London 2026. 215pp: £14.99) by Helen-Ann Hartley, Anderson Jeremiah, Winnie Varghese, Mark Oakley, Rachel Mann, Gemma Simmonds, and others, addresses the question of how in a time of uncertainty and change, we might envision the future of the Church of England. The 13 chapters include the following: ‘Hopeful endurance’; ‘Simpler, humbler, poorer: can a rich church enter the Kingdom of Heaven’; ‘Racial justice and/as reconciliation’; and ‘Hospitality: a Gospel imperative’.
Dementia, God and the church: journeying with hope (BRF, Abingdon 2026. 206pp: £12.99) by Wendy Gleadle, who is a secretary to an online dementia group, and Frances Atwood, who runs a reminiscence group for people with dementia, aims to show how person-centred approaches to dementia can provide hope. This is a very helpful book.
Imagining the World: daily reflections for the creation season (DLT, London 2026. 166pp: £9.99 hardback) by John Mann, a retired Anglican minister, offers us the opportunity to reflect thoughtfully and prayerfully on the wonder of God’s creation. Each day the author presents a short passage of scripture with a contemplative reflection together with an extract from the writings of Teilhard de Chardin, Simone Weil and Sôren Kierkegaard, which is then followed by a prayer.
Fearless: finding courage in a world of chaos (Herne Books, Croydon 2026.240pp: £12.99) by Gemma Roe, is a collection of stories of hope, triumph and revolution. In the process she explores the meaning of true and lasting liberation; both personal and collective. She has written this book for those who are currently grieving or are confused.
Enabling spiritual care: a guide for care home staff (BRF, Abingdon 2026. 176pp: £9.99) by Becky Shaylor, an artist and a professional in the care sector, enables members of care home staff teams to understand and facilitate the provision of spiritual care for residents. It explains the need for religious care, focusing on older people who are Christians, and provides examples of prayers, hymns, and services that can be used.
Blaise Pascal: the man who made the modern world (Hodder & Stoughton, London 2025. 438pp: £25 hardback) by Graham Tomlin, President of St Melitus College and formerly Bishop of Kensington, who in this biography explores Pascal’s short but extraordinary life, and the sweeping impact and relevance of his ideas to the modern world.
Gaudi: God’s architect (John Murray Press/Hodder Faith, London 2026. 412pp: £30 hardback) by Peter Stanford, a former editor of the Catholic Herald, has written this detailed book on Antoni Gaudi, a distinguished architect. One of Gaudi’s churches is La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Northern saints in holy places: a pilgrims’ guide to North East England (Sacristy Press, Durham 2026. 172pp: £14.99) by Gavin Wakefield, an Anglican minister in the diocese of Durham) takes the reader on a journey through 1,400 years of faith, history and legend.
Three more volumes are available in the excellent Hodder Bible Commentary: viz. 1 & 2 Chronicles (Hodder Faith, London 2026. 473pp: £22.99 hardback) by Peter Hon Wan Lau, who teaches Old Testament in theological colleges in Malaysia; Esther (Hodder Faith, London 2026. 156pp: £22: 156pp: £22.99 hardback) by K.A. Ellis who is the director of Edmiston Centre for Christian Endurance Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia; and Psalms 1-41 (Hodder Faith, London2026. 360pp: £22.99 hardback) by Benjamin Sargent, the dean of Winchester College’s chapel.
Grove booklets rightly claim that their booklets are ‘not the last word.. but often the first word’. Their booklets are all 28 pages long and cost £3.95. Autism, Worship, Belonging (Worship 267, 2006) by Armad Leon van Ommen, a senior lecturer in practical theology at the University of Aberdeen), explores what church worship can feel like for an autistic person. Learning from rural resourcing churches (Mission and evangelism 154, 2026) by Sally Gaze, a former archdeacon for rural mission) explores the inspiring phenomena of rural resourcing churches, offering insights, vision and a way forward. The trees our teachers: seeking God’s truth in Scripture and nature (Spirituality 177, 2026) by Will Simonson, who has worked in the fields of agroforestry, nature conservation ion and climate change adaptation, explores the biblical material and relates it to our knowledge of the values and significance od trees in the modern world.