Saint Aidan Press - Books on Healing

Wild Beasts and Angels Remaining Human in the Healing Ministry (by Michael Mitton)

For many of us, healing is needed only when we are sick, and is offered by an elite of specially trained 'experts' to weak or vulnerable people who are in need of their help.

In Wild Beasts and Angels Michael Mitton challenges these and many other myths and misconceptions about healing and the healing ministry. Using an original and compelling mix of words and images, theology and personal experience, story-telling and biblical reflection, he describes a very different understanding of healing, placing it at the centre of all our lives and of the communities in which we live. He shows that healing is a shared journey in which the healer in often the one who is in need, and the person who is sick is often the one ministering to the healer. And he wrestles with the mystery of a God who sometimes cures - and who sometimes doesn't cure.

This radical, creative and often moving book faces the difficulties and puzzles that surround healing and the healing ministry with honesty and humility. It is dedicated to 'friends who have faced the cold sickness of cancer with faith, humanity, hope and humour'.

£7.95, DLT, ISBN 0-232-52341-X

Before We Say Goodbye. Preparing for a Good Death (by Ray Simpson)

In a world where nothing is certain except death and taxes (Benjamin Franklin), preparing for our own death is something that we all need to do. After all, living well requires us to die well, and dying well takes preparation. Before We Say Goodbye eases the burden with heartening and helpful advice. Prayers, songs, poems, quotations and readings provide inspiration and encouragement; stories from the last days of saints and ordinary people bring comfort. Wise guidance is given on isssues such as fear of the unknown, saying what you want to say and what happens after death. Practical advice is also provided for leaving things in order and completing funeral arrangements and wills.

£9.99, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-711939-9

Healing Death's Wounds(by Michael Mitton & Russ Parker)

Since the tragic and dramatic impact of the destruction of the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001, more people in the West are openly questioning issues of life and death. Before this, wholesale destruction of life was something that happened a long way from home. Now the wounds of grief are on our own doorstep and they are felt keenly both personally and corporately. Such enormous grief and trauma have led many to ask searching questions about the departed such as 'Where are they?' and 'Will I see them again?' It is into these questions that our Christian hope can bring healing. This book reveals what the Bible says about death and the departed. It teaches us how can we express our love for those who have died. It gives an honest and fresh approach to the whole subject of what is the proper relationship between the living and the departed and demonstrates how the love and power of Jesus brings healing to those who have been stung by death's wounds. Healing Death's Wounds is a revised version of Requiem Healing and explores these deep questions of life and death. It offers insights into how to pastor the bereaved, foster hope in the faithful, commit the dead to God and deliver the oppressed.

£8.99 Arcadia, ISBN 1-904404-03-0

Healing Wounded History. (By Russ Parker)

An exciting presentation of a new approach to healing by one of the UK's leading exponents of pastoral care and Christian healing.

Russ Parker explores the power of wounded group stories and reveals how they affect the people and places where they first occured. He shows how history repeats itself until we find ways to listen to it, locate where it is happening, and find healing for its consequences.

Healing Wounded History introduces the role of strategic prayer known as 'representional confession', and shows how it makes reconciliation and renewal possible for families, churches, communities, tribes and nations.

£10.95, DLT, ISBN 0-232-52251-0

Healing Wounded History. The Workbook. A Course for Small Groups. (By Russ Parker and Michael Mitton)

Healing Wounded History: Reconciling Peoples and Healing Places (DLT, 2001) brought a powerful new dimension to the healing ministry. Russ Parker, one of the UK's leading and most respected exponents of pastoral care and Christian healing, demonstrates how we are shaped not only by individual experiences but also by the group stories we carry within us: falily, church, community and tribe or nation. Russ Parker shows how wounded group stories affect not only us but also the locality and the land where they happened. This groundbreaking book explains how we can bring Christ's healing and reconciliation to people and places and the wounded group stories that connect them.

Healing Wounded History: The Workbook is the ideal approach to healing. Designed as a seven-session course to enable individuals, small groups and group leaders to bring healing and renewal to their churches and communities, the workbook summarises the new approach in simple and staightforward language and offers questions for discussion, practical exercises, and real-life examples of group healing.

£5.95, DLT, ISBN 0-232-52252-9

Heart to Listen. Becoming a Listening Person in a Noisy World (by Michael Mitton)

Listening has become a lost art in a world that is growing ever noisier, more superficial and more stressed. Too many of us have forgotten not only about listening to others but also about listening to God, to our own hearts, to our wider communities - and even to our planet. Without listening, how can we hope to gain wisdom, to build deep and truly caring relationships with all kinds of people, to share our faith?

This accessible book shows how, with God's help, we can relearn the art of listening and in doing so become a source of help and healing for others and for ourselves. Biblical reflection is interwoven with insights from the author's wide experience of listening ministry in the UK and abroad. Between each chapter are episodes of an intriguing story, which explores the book's themes through vividly imagined characters in a cross-cultural setting.

£7.99, Bible Reading Fellowship, ISBN 1-84101-269-6

Updated 25-01-2011