Many people in the West have seen what the Church has to offer and found it wanting. This credibility gap makes it hard to communicate the gospel clearly and authentically.

Frost and Hirsch explore why the Church needs to recalibrate itself from the roots up. They build their case from real-life stories of missional projects in the US, Australia, New Zealand (Church of Christ), Canada and England.

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"While not losing sight of Paul’s injunction to concentrate on what is pure, noble and right, let us follow the authors’ lead and join the theologising already occurring within popular culture. In so doing we just might be drawn deeper into the mystery of the God we proclaim and perhaps even discover an unanticipated connection to the postmodern generation God is calling us to serve." Stanley J Grenz, author of A primer on postmodernism.

Includes advertising, celebrities, music, movies, television, fashion, sports and art.

Karen Gazley’s life radically changed the week her husband flew to Mount Cook to instruct on a Royal New Zealand Airforce winter exercise. Keen mountaineer, and RNZAF pilot Paul Gazley had miraculously survived a 12-hour burial in a massive avalanche off Mt Cook a few years before. This time the Airforce party of 27 was caught in a slab avalanche and Paul was killed. After seven months of marriage Karen was widowed at the age of 22.

My Everest tells her story of survival and how she went on to ‘climb many Everests’ in her search for peace. Along the way she became an adventurer, journalist and tutor.

Jesus didn’t travel more than 200 miles from his birthplace, didn’t marry or write a book, and had only a handful of followers. He died young, executed as a criminal.

Who did Jesus think he was? Did the early church take a man and make him into God? Was Christianity actually invented by Paul?

This book explores how traditional beliefs about Jesus have been viewed since the enlightenment and how they are understood today.

Where do worries about our status come from and what if anything we can do to surmount them? With the help of philosophers, artists and writers, de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety (ranging from the consequences of the French Revolution to our secret dismay at the success of our friends), before revealing ingenious ways in which people have learnt to overcome their worries in their search for happiness. Entertaining, but also genuinely wise and helpful. (The recent TV series was based on this book.)

In 1936, Methodist Rev Ormond Burton and A C Barrington, his circuit steward, established the Society. Many members publicly protested against World War II, for which some were jailed. Others became conscientious objectors and suffered detention in camps for indeterminate sentences.

David Grant, NZ’s foremost author on this topic, draws on his personal interviews with CPS members from the 1980s onwards and other research to tell the stories of these committed men and women, and of the organisation they formed. The book includes 26 photographs from the author’s collection, several of which are published here for the first time.

In 1822 Marianne Williams, with her missionary husband Henry and three small children left England forever for a remote one-house settlement - the Church Missionary Society mission station in the Bay of Islands. Her only contact with the outside world was in letters home to her family, and through these letters her story can now be told.

Marianne lived among warring Maori tribes with unruly whalers across the bay. She was nurse, midwife, surrogate missionary when her husband was away, ran the station, schools and provided hospitality to visiting Eurpoean explorers - including Charles Darwin. A brave and extraordinary woman.

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays on ethical and spiritual challenges in an aging society includes comment on late-life wisdom, integrity, spirituality and sexuality.

For pastors, counsellors, churchleaders and anyone concerned with what it means to grow older.

These helpful booklets in the Grove (UK) Pastoral series are sensitively written and full of practical ideas and guidance.

• Dementia discusses the challenges of visiting those with dementia, how to hold short worship services - including communion, Jesus’ healing ministry and the author’s ideas for a new inclusive theology.

• Sorrow and Hope focuses on preparing a funeral service, ideas for preaching in different circumstances, managing the giving of tributes, and how to stage the ceremony. In an increasingly secular society, the role of the Christian minister at funerals continues to be of great significance. (NB does not include funeral liturgies.)

Other titles in the series include: The pain of parting • Prayer and the departed • Dying and death • Depression: living on the dark side of the cross

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