Our Bookstall


The church has had a bookstall for over 50 years. We believe it is important that regular worshippers and visitors can have the opportunity to browse and purchase books and other materials including:
• Books about the Christian faith and our churches
• Devotional materials to aid personal prayer and reflection
• Inspirational stories from Christians and people of faith
• Works that will help us to understand a Christian perspective on some of the important issues facing the world
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The bookstall has been ably managed since its inception by Mr Charles Taplin and we are very excited to be taking over this important part of the church’s ministry.

If you have any ideas or suggestions, or the books shown below are no longer stocked on the stall, and you’d like a copy, please contact us on pickeringchurchbooks@gmail.com

Watch this space for news about new stock and events.

Mary and Jo
Why not come and browse our great range of new and second-hand books?
The Word with the Words by Malcolm Guite, in which the author describes how his Christian faith informs and underpins his poetry and how the poetry helps him understand his faith.  Bill Page has been inspired by Guites poetry and hopes to share some of that inspiration and enthusiasm with others.

The bookstall has one copy for sale but others can be ordered on request.   Our price £8.
The Word within the Words by Malcolm Guite
in a My Theology series published by Darton Longman and Todd
 
I have flirted with poetry for most of my adult life but now, at last, I have finally found my champion.  At different stages of my spiritual journey I have used the works of R.S.Thomas, John Donne, George Herbert, Kathleen Jamie, U.A.Fanthorpe, Nan Shepherd and Kenneth Steven (of Iona fame) – not the most erudite of lists you have ever seen.  I guess the purpose of a poem is to distil complex ideas or concepts or images in as few words as possible but in a form that makes it easier to commit to memory.
 
This slim volume says it all about the motivation and the grounding of Malcolm Guite’s work and includes the full text of his poem “Love’s Choice” about his nourishing experience of regularly receiving the Sacrament.  The poem is sometimes used as a meditation on the Feast of Corpus Christi.  When I first read it it quite frankly “blew my mind” in the way that no other poem ever had.  Never has a poem had such a profound effect on my senses, my understanding or my faith.
The blurb on the back cover of the book says “Guite explains a guiding theology of Christ
as the word … the essential logos that underlies all things made flesh for us in Jesus”.  I couldn’t put it any better.  If you need some inspiration or to just chill in a mindful moment, this is your elixir.
 
Revd. Bill Page
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