Q & A with Bob Hartman, author of Hanging Out with Jesus

"I felt there was a gap with eight to ten year old kids in that regard, boys in particular. So I thought that something that was funny and adventurous would be the best way forward." B. H.

Finding a New Courage

Stuart Townend talks to Clem Jackson about his recent album, Courage, and shares some of the very personal story behind the recording.

A Story of Forgiveness and New Beginnings

I read an article in The Guardian about a man who’d broken into a church one night. He didn’t steal anything but lit some candles and prayed before leaving in the morning. It really caught my attention and gave me the initial idea. When I started the book I’d no idea why my character, Josh, had broken into the church, but the story grew from there.

The Fiction Files by Anne Rogers

At CRT back in September someone made a casual remark in conversation – but it stuck in my mind. They said, “I don’t read Christian fiction because it doesn’t produce books in the genres I like to read”. And I wondered how many other people think the same. So this month I’m setting out to show some of the genres of novel which can be found under the very broad banner of ‘Christian fiction’.

ESV Illuminated Scripture Journals, Bringing light to God’s Word

Hand-lettered, gold-ink illustrations are interspersed throughout the blank pages, inviting readers to add their own artwork or Bringing light to God’s Word. reflections to each page and to creatively engage with God’s Word alongside specific passages.

A Cry is Heard – My Path to Peace by Jean Vanier, Reviewed by Alan Mordue

A Cry Is Heard highlights Vanier’s enormous humane instincts as well as his great intellect, to which his PHD thesis on the place of virtue in Arstotle’s ethics can testify. The book makes you want to read more widely on virtue ethics as they permeate the text of the book. However he does does not dwell on them in any clever way, but in a natural and down-to-earth manner as an exploration of peace.