Through the course of their work with people engaged in ministries of various kinds - spiritual directors, healthcare chaplains, local clergy, theological educators, youth workers, the authors of this groundbreaking book have become convinced of the need to provide a practical guide to the practice of pastoral supervision understood as a core discipline of the Christian church and enriched by the best of what other supervision disciplines have to offer. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of pastoral supervision, embedding it theologically and offering rooted examples from their own practice. At the end of each chapter practical exercises are offered to help the reader reflect on their own practice and tools are suggested for use with supervision groups and in work with individuals.

Product Description: Timed to coincide with the release of the third and final series of the award-winning Downton Abbey, which has attracted audiences of more than 10 million viewers. This Brief Guidecelebrates the Victorian and Edwardian eras that marked the golden age of the English countryhouse: a time when opulence and formality attained a level that would never be matched again...read more

Product Description: The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but the familiarity with later 19th-century stories and history tends to give us a distorted view. Using character portraits and key events, Paterson brings the world of Victorian Britain alive, from the lifestyles of the aristocrats to the depths of the London slums...read more

Offers an insight into the life of Winston Churchill, from his escape as a prisoner of war in South Africa, his political career, his dark days following the Dardanelles failure, and his resurgence as Britain's great wartime Prime Minister. This work juxtaposes Churchill's prolific commentaries on himself with the opinions of those who knew him.

An expert on Winston Churchill offers a distinctive vision of the wartime British leader's life using information culled from previously unpublished material and first-hand accounts from those who knew him, presenting fresh insights into his various political, military, and artistic accomplishments.

Shares personal accounts by survivors of World War II airmen from all sides of the war, from the dogfight pilots from the Battle of Britain and the bomber crews above Europe to the Japanese kamikazes and the Russian aces of the eastern front, in a volume complemented by air combat paintings.