James Woodward

Pondering the Meaning of Life

Apologetics

“Life like travel needs a guide, a map, and always direction. Work, relationships, life skills like negotiating grief and sometimes conflict require support, a listening ear, and advice. Ian Smith offers a general reader and enquirer a wise and generative collection of carefully organized thoughts about God and the possible shape of meaning in faith and our shared mortality.”

The Beauty of Holiness

Arts & Literature

“Brian Bishop takes us on an extraordinary adventure into the processes of stopping, gazing, perceiving, and knowing. In this consumerist and materialistic world of ours, he invites us into a different relationship with time as we are asked to stop and gaze with him at a number of paintings. In these chapters you will be taken on an adventure of discovery as a different theology is shaped beyond the limitations of language and the intellect. The paintings are to be read within a framework of hope and even possibly the expectation that our faith will be enlarged by imagination and the adventure of the heart. Bishop is generous in offering what has been discovered through a number of encounters with art. There is clarity, creativity, and skill of the eye within which the visual touches our central sense of what it means to be alive . In this book you will be invited into a mystery of spiritual adventure which is both complex and precise. I commend it warmly.”

Touching God

Theology

“There are three key qualities to this book. The first is that it is grounded in the intimate experience of dementia in a loved one. The text is informed by these experiences, which are handled with extraordinary sensitivity. The reader is taken into the complexity and perplexity of this disease. The second is the way in which Touching God is shaped by a generative grasp of the Christian theological tradition. There is wisdom in the exploration of agency of God in the face of human fragility. The third is the author’s ability to ask and hold difficult questions. These chapters touch life, hope, theology, belief, and the very nature of God. Read this—you will not be disappointed.”

What Happens to Faith When Christians Get Dementia?

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Attentiveness, integrity, rigor, and wisdom are key features of this book. Its carefully and meticulously organized chapters open up the life and faith of those living with memory change. It is written within the framework of practical theology and models good practice in qualitative research. Williams has made an important contribution to the field of dementia, faith, and pastoral care. I hope that it will be both read and acted on.”