A priest administering the last rites holds up a crucifix to a young woman on her deathbed. She experiences 16 visions of Jesus . A horror show of pain and agony, blood and gore dominates her visions at first. Out of the suffering comes a revelation of the feminine aspects of the Trinity. At the end of the revelations she awakes in pain but alive. She became the first woman to write a book in English, yet we still do not know her name.

Like so many things in this fallen world, most modern translations of the bible are done by committees. In producing the first "literary" translation of the Hebrew Bible since the King James Version, Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, seeks to combat the poor English and poor Hebrew he sees in modern translations of the bible by conveying into English the extraordinary power of the imagery, repetition and word plays of the Hebrew text. An extensive commentary illuminates every nuance, allusion and elision of the text.

Youth ministry flounders because "youth, more often than not, reflect the religious commitment of their parents ... we do not have a teenage problem as much as we have an ecclesiasal or entire church problem."

Modern biblical scholarship has deconstructed the text of the bible to the point where faith can seem lost. One reaction to this is to insist on the literal truth and accuracy of the bible. Karen Armstrong proposes another: to understand the religious ways in which the bible has been understood across the ages as a living document that speaks to people in the spiritual crises of their day and time.

Phyllis Trible performs a close reading of four of the most horrific passages in the Old Testament. Free translation draws out the poetic structure and literary emphases of the Hebrew text to draw out the voices (and erasure of voices) and lived experiences of women in pivotal events of the bible. While she draws out new meanings of the annunciation, the suffering servant, and Abraham's sacrifice, there is no redeeming story to be found here.

An Eastern Orthodox scholar explores the experience of God across the major world religions.

An examination of the numerous ways in which Christians have interpreted and reinterpreted the story of humanity's expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury explores themes of discipleship that may enhance a Christian life.

An imaginative retelling of the life of Saint Aidan, by the late vicar of Holy Island, Lindisfarne

"What does God have to do with productivity reports and cleaning toilets? Everything. People were designed to work in partnership with God. When you find yourself rightly aligned with God's perspective, your daily work takes on a higher level of excitement and significance. Everything you do can be transformed into an act of worship."

30 daily devotions from the saintly exponent of the "Little Way" to God.

Following in the footsteps of AJ Jacobs, the late Rachel Held Evans continues her re-examination of the pillars of her evangelical upbringing in the heart of the Bible Belt: gentleness, domesticity, obedience, valor, beauty, modesty, purity, fertility, submission, justice, silence, and grace.

Exploring other ancient forms of Christianity that developed in Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia, beyond "western-centric" standard histories of "Nicene" Christianities.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury explores the essential practices of Christian life in the Anglican tradition.

A war correspondent and professor of journalism travels to Mount Athos seeking healing for his failing marriage and the trauma of covering the Bosnian war.

A lively retelling of the life of Saint Cuthbert, by the late vicar of Holy Island, Lindisfarne

For the last 2000 years, Christians have read and re-read the book of Isaiah in a multiplicity of ways that have informed and reformed their understanding of the gospels.

The former stand up comedian turned pastor continues her trademark combination of Alcoholics Anonymous confessional with Evangelical Lutheranism's focus on the grace of God.

"... what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God's ability to work through sinners."

Appalling, heart-rending, and astonishing stories of God's grace breaking into people's lives despite them rather than because of them. 

An Eastern Orthodox scholar attempts to convey the feeling of what it is like to read the Koine Greek of the New Testament, doggedly avoiding any theological niceties, to present a New Testament in the raw.

As an adolescent growing up in the heart of the Bible Belt, calling herself "evangelical" signified that she found the Southern Baptists too staid and left-wing. A crisis of faith in young adulthood led the late Rachel Held Evans on a journey that ultimately lead her to ... Anglicanism.

Thomas C. Oden explores Coptic church traditions about St Mark and his early life in Libya. Oden then re-examines in the light of these traditions, exploring Mark's relationship to the Last Supper, Pentecost, and missionary travels.

"Why do we expect justice? Why do we crave spirituality? Why are we attracted to beauty? Why are relationships often so painful? And how will the world be made right? These are not simply perennial questions all generations must struggle with, but, according to NT Wright, the very echoes of a voice we dimly perceive but deeply long to hear. In fact, these questions take us into the heart of who God is and what He wants from us."

Jeff White collaborated with 17 illustrators to produce an illustrated bible for adults, retelling the classic bible stories from the perspective of the leading characters.

"... become an eyewitness to God's story in your life."

Is there a place for Christian theology in public policy debates? The former Archbishop of Canterbury traverses topics ranging from secularism to the climate crisis, economics, justice and multiculturalism to demonstrate where communities of faith contribute a vital and necessary perspective to political debate.

What begins as a journalistic stunt of taking biblical prohibitions literally (don't wear clothes of mixed fibres) becomes a fascinating engagement with people who do try to do exactly that, with the religion of his forefathers, and with the discipline of daily prayer.

Dunn challenges the "literary bias" in most historical treatments of the gospels ignoring the prior oral transmission that had to be involved. This must have begun in Jesus's mission in Galilee and particularly in his instruction of the disciples. It must have been maintained within communities of faith. Oral tradition would best explain the roots of both the commonalities and the differences between the synoptic gospels.

A scientist of faith grapples with and rebuts many common smears against Christianity.

In an age of Wikipedia untruths and misinformation can become commonly known facts. David Bentley Hart unravels and corrects more misinformation about Christianity than you ever knew existed.

The message of Easter is the universal salvation of all humanity. "God will be all in all". Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher David Bentley Hart doubles down on his New Testament translation by challenging major streams of theology derived from Saint Augustine that play on eternal hellfire and damnation.

"The lynching tree - so strikingly similar to the cross on Golgotha - should have a prominent place in American images of Jesus' death. But it does not. In fact, the lynching tree has no place in American theological reflections about Jesus' cross or in the proclamation of the Christian churches about his Passion. The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century lynching."

A collection of prayers by the late rector of Holy Island, David Adam, illustrated with contemplative photographs in and around Lindisfarne.

The Nazareth Community at St Martin-in-the-Fields is a reimagining of monastic disciplines and work, here, in our lives, now. The disciplines include silence, prayer, contemplation, lectio divina, liturgy, sacrament, service, hospitality, sabbath.

When we feel abandoned and alone, we may need someone who will walk with us, not talk at us and give answers, but simply listen and walk. That is the grief walk, and it is what is needed to help us live through the many tragedies that cut across life.

"... on Monday morning, you're back at work with all its regular assignments, deadlines and obstacles, and the Sunday sermon about God, faith, His kingdom, and Jesus becomes a distant memory."

This book explores various biblical passages, theological insights and self-reflection that might help bridge the gap between Sunday and Monday.

"How can we recover the depth and power of the Bible in the twenty-first century?"

Publish a sumptuous bible with multitudinous commentaries providing "a chorus of voices from the great theological and spiritual tradition", lavishly illuminated with the great masterpieces. All "designed to appeal to nonbelievers, searchers, and those with far more questions about religion than answers."

"... one small act of kindness can turn a life around."

Armstrong examines the Golden Rule in the major world religions and how that might lead us to becoming more compassionate to others and to ourselves.

A heavily tattooed standup comic struggling with sobriety goes to seminary school....

When one of the members of her Alcoholics Anonymous group committed suicide, Nadia was asked to take the memorial service as being the only "religious" person any of them knew. She found her calling. After ordination, she founded a church.

Rowan Williams addresses the things worth treasuring in the Chronicles of Narnia series: "The possibility Lewis still offers of coming across the Christian story as if for the first time." ... "How do you make fresh what is thought to be familiar, so familiar that it doesn't need to be thought about? Try making up a world in which these things can be met without preconceptions, a world in which the strangeness of the Christian story is encountered for what it is, not as part of a familiar eccentricity of behaviour called religion."

A practising scientist and member of one of the three Abrahamic faiths questions how he as a scientist - or anyone living in the modern world - can adhere to faith while living in a scientific world.

A book of prayers and cartoons originally published in Melbourne's Sunday Age newspaper.

"When we fall, let us fall inwards. Let us fall freely and completely: that we may find our depth and humility: the solid earth from which we may rise up and love again."

"You have a responsibility to womanhood on the planet to be all that you were created to be .... The princess chick, the warrior chick, the champion chick, the friend chick, the party chick, the lover chick, and the whatever-it-takes chick all reside in you. You are woman, and you were put on the planet for 'such a time as this'. Now is your time".

A book of modern meditations drawing on the Christian traditions of devotion, simplicity, discipline, service, surrender, trials, courage, growth, healing, prayer.

"Give whenever you can / The greatest gifts in life / cannot be bought with money ...

The richest people on earth / are those who give / themselves away."

A fresh and inspiring look at the letters of Paul. Rowan Williams discusses such things as how important his Roman citizenship was to Paul, and how astonishing and challenging were such concepts as the equality of master and slave in Christianity.

"When John said that if all the things Jesus did were recorded, the world itself could not contain all the books, he might have meant the stories of these women".

If the core of the gospels was transmitted by a community of faith, how did they preserve memory until it could be written as history?

Etienne Trockme performs a close reading of the four gospels detecting a passion liturgy as a common source between them, developed in early Christian commemorations held at the time of the annual Passover celebrations in Jerusalem.

An elegiac travel diary as the renowned historian travels through Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syriac, Marionite, and Coptic communities from Mt Athos through the Middle East to the birthplace of monasticism in the Egyptian desert.

An electrifying new translation of the Gospel of St Mark. Laid out chapter by chapter with the commentary as footnotes.

The modern church needs to become a missionary church in its own country. That will require a change from sending missionaries like soldiers to a foreign country to re-evaluating the treasures that are already here.

Finding a way for young people to nurture personal faith & know God

The Bible as a graphic novel - What's not to like?

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a famous discovery but we know less about them than we may think.

Meditations for the young and old

Covers modern scholarship on the formation of the bible and how it has been used and understood by various faiths over time, such as the early Christian Church