Alan D Billings

Dying and Grieving: A Guide to Pastoral Ministry

Alan Billings

Canon Dr Alan Billings is a member of the Youth Justice Board and is a retired Anglican priest. Alan Billings is also the director of the Centre for Ethics and ...

Lost Church: Why We Must Find it Again

In trying to understand the relationship of the British people to religion - specifically Christianity - we tend to say that people: believe - or do not; attend - or do not. The argument of Lost Church is that the majority of people do not really fit either of these categories. Rather, they 'belong'...

God and Community Cohesion: Help or Hindrance?

Following the urban riots of 2001, and the more recent terrorist attacks, community cohesion has replaced multiculturalism as the key social policy objective of both national and local government. Since these events were seen as having a religious dimension, they raise the question: is religion cont...

Dying and Grieving - A Guide to Pastoral Ministry

Although organized religion is in serious decline, most people still turn to the Church when they arrange a funeral. As a result, they receive help and comfort when someone close to them dies. But what can Christianity say about death that might carry conviction in today's increasingly secularized s...

Making God Possible - The Task of Ordained Ministry Present and Future

What are clergy for? In this lively and provocative volume, Alan Billings argues that they serve the mission and ministry of the Church, which is to make God possible. In each new era, how to carry out this mission effectively will vary, as the Church seeks to respond to changes in society and cultu...

Secular Lives, Sacred Hearts: The role of the Church in a time of no religion

Secular Lives, Sacred Hearts contends that the traditional sociological account of secular Britain is misleading and that we should learn to think in terms of the nation being 'culturally Christian'. The church should therefore take seriously those occasions when ministry is sought - such as baptism...

The Dove, The Fig Leaf and the Sword: Why Christianity changes its mind about war

This fascinating critique of the Church's varying response to the use of force over the centuries gives Christians a greater understanding of the complexity of peace keeping, and stresses the vital role of praying for those in authority

Making God Possible - The Task of Ordained Ministry Present and Future [Paperback] [2010] (Author) Alan Billings

Secular Lives, Sacred Hearts by Billings, Alan (2004) Paperback