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Friends and Heroes

Posted on September 28, 2008 by | 11 Comments
I invited Dave Carlos, Marketing Director at Friends and Heroes, to tell us something about the company’s vision…

“Where there is no vision, the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18

I find this a fascinating verse and one which I see as at the heart of the inspiration for Friends and Heroes!

The Friends and Heroes team were in the USA recently, at ICRS, manning a stand (they call them “booths”) and telling folk about the Friends and Heroes project. Our opening line when talking to Christian booksellers was “What is your passion?” It could just as easily have been “What is your vision?”

Several folk had to think for a while but most replied with something along the lines “To reach out to people with the gospel through the medium of Christian books”. We discussed their answers a little before saying, “Can we share our passion/vision with you?” That’s what I’d like to do in this column and it’s quite a vision!

I recall vividly as a child that the Bible permeated my young life: Bible stories; Bible pictures; Bible quizzes; Bible exams; Bible readings and even TV Bible stories. They came at me from all angles: home (my mother was a Methodist minister); school; church; Sunday School Union and even the BBC. How times have changed!

Many schools now teach Comparative Religion. The radio and TV are almost devoid of clear Biblical content and even some churches place less emphasis on the Bible than I experienced as a child. I took my last NSSU Bible Examination in my mid twenties (the 1970′s if you must know)!

It is this dearth of Bible material in our culture which inspired David and Alison Dorricott to become involved in Friends and Heroes - a TV series which has Bible stories in every episode – with the aim of introducing a new generation of children to the truth of the Bible in an understandable form which they love – TV!

Macky

Meet Macky: Macky is a fourteen year-old boy living in Alexandria when the Friends and Heroes story starts. Bright, funny, sometimes hot-headed and courageous, also confused and torn at times, Macky is not much different to teenagers today!

Friends and Heroes tells a historically-accurate adventure story set in the First Century AD when the stories of Jesus were circulating in the oral record. Our teenage heroes, Macky, a Jewish boy and a Roman girl, Portia, hear the stories in a real-world context – when they need help or inspiration – and so the stories, from both Old and New Testaments, are presented in such a way that their meaning is clear and their application obvious!

Portia

Meet Portia: Born into a noble family, Portia has an easy life in Alexandria living with her uncle Tiberius, the Roman Governor of the city. She finds herself drawn to Macky and his family after she is rescued from a runaway horse.

I think this is what inspires our young viewers so much – they not only see the Bible stories in superb 3D computer-generated animation – they also understand why they should respond and what they can mean to them as they face everyday life in the 21st Century AD. You can see the story of Daniel in the Lions’ Den here:

Watch Daniel in the Lions Den

Watch Daniel in the Lions Den

I said earlier that this project doesn’t lack vision. By the time the production is completed there will be 39 half-hour episodes in three series – over 16 hours of video, that’s nearly 10 feature-films worth – at a cost of over £10 million!

The action moves around the world from Alexandria in Egypt, to Jerusalem and eventually Rome. But we have an even greater world vision for our programme and will soon have dubs in 10 languages other than English including Mandarin, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish (South American), German, French, Korean, Arabic, Hindu/Urdu and Manx!

Friends and Heroes will soon be broadcast in Taiwan, the Middle East including Iran and broadcasters in many other countries are interested in seeing it broadcast in their language too.

Where there is no vision, the people perish and without hearing who Jesus is they can’t accept Him as their Saviour! Friends and Heroes is trying to play its part in the Great Commission – by letting children see and hear Bible stories!

You can learn much more about Friends and Heroes from our websites:  www.friendsandheroes.com and www.friendsandheroes.tv

All images courtesy of Friends and Heroes, used by permission. Contact Friends and Heroes online if you’d like to become a stockist…

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A Permanent Becoming: Review

Posted on September 26, 2008 by | 1 Comment

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A Permanent BecomingA Permanent Becoming 
A Contemporary Look at the Fruit of the Spirit

Alan Mann 
ISBN 9781850787839 (1850787832) 
Authentic, 2008 
£8.99

Category: Christian Life & Discipleship 
Reviewed by: Phil Groom

Alan Mann, what are you doing to me?

When I invited Alan to tell me about his new book, when I designated that book UKCBD ‘Book of the Month‘ for September 2008, little did I realise what I was letting myself in for. It’s rare for a Christian book to choke me up to the point where I am unable to continue reading for fear of being reduced to a blubbering wreck in public. On reflection, it’s not rare: I don’t think it’s ever happened to me before. On the tube, no less, travelling to and from work. Three times already, for God’s sake, and I haven’t even finished the book yet!

If you’ve read Alan’s introduction to the book then you’ll already know what it’s about: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness (always ‘humility’ in my mental list) and self-control. The ‘fruit of the Spirit’ as described by the Apostle Paul (or whoever wrote Galations: I honestly don’t give a fig about that). A list of what Alan himself describes as rather mundane virtues: the qualities we expect of our grannies, but not exactly cool or radical enough for today’s young people, or even someone like me, desperate to deny the onset of middle-age.

But Alan takes hold of these virtues and reworks them for an iGeneration, flipping that ‘i’ around until it becomes an exclamation point: ! — a warning, an alert message. Apple have given us iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iWant it all, iWant it now. Where does an arcane concept like the fruit of the Spirit fit in today’s world? Love? iLove my iPod but iLove yours more with it’s shiny touchscreen technology. Alan’s assessment: Love is… as love does. Seen supremely in Jesus, who gives himself away. An impossible standard? Maybe so, but this is the fruit of the Spirit we’re talking about, not the fruit of human strength or determination: God’s Spirit at work in us. And by God’s Spirit, I am reworked: Love is… as love does.

I have to stop writing: my train has arrived. But as I step onto the platform, a sign greets me: i for information. I drop the ‘n’ to make sense of my thoughts: iFormation. This is what Alan’s book brings us: not information (though, yes, there is plenty of that too) but iFormation. Personal reformation — formation of the self beyond self.

It’s tempting to say more: to offer you excerpts from Alan’s writing. To tell you about the exact points at which I personally had to stop reading simply to hold myself together, and the points at which Alan and I don’t quite see eye to eye: it would be a boring book indeed if I agreed with everything in it! One particular point of frustration is the lack of general references: biblical references are meticulously noted, but other sources are not. But, as a friend said to me yesterday, there’s wisdom in knowing when to stop, and I think I’ve more or less reached that point. What I want now is for you — yes, you — to get hold of a copy of the book and read it for yourself. I don’t think it’s too far-fetched to describe this book as a postmodern spiritual classic, a book that should be on every theological student’s essential reading list. A book that should be on your reading list, whoever you are.

So I end as I began, but a step or two further on: Alan Mann, what are you doing to me?

More to the point, what have you unleashed upon me? You’ve subtitled your book ‘A Contemporary Look at the Fruit of the Spirit’. But it’s far more than that, isn’t it? It’s the start — or rather, the continuation — of a journey. It’s a journey I embarked on many years ago and it’s a journey that’s been going on all my life: a journey into God, with God and into true humanity. It’s a journey that I’m still travelling, still tripping and stumbling: bumbling, fumbling and stumbling my way into the Kingdom of God… goofing and screwing it up but somehow continually alternating between picking myself up and being picked up by God and by God’s people around me, even by those who wouldn’t identify themselves as God’s people.

I’ve finished the book now. But the book hasn’t finished with me: it is, as you say, a permanent becoming…

Thank you.

Phil Groom, September 2008

Phil Groom is this site’s Webmaster and Reviews Editor. He’s a regular contributor to Christian Marketplace magazine and is the manager of London School of Theology Books & Resources. Any opinions expressed here are personal and should not be taken as representing the views of London School of Theology or of any other group or organisation.

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Beyond The God Delusion

Posted on September 25, 2008 by | 1 Comment

The Dawkins Delusion

Update: Unfortunately it turns out that this is a clergy only special event, as per this comment from Elizabeth Foy. My apologies for any inconvenience or misunderstanding…

It seems a long time since I posted my review of Alister McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion but the issues raised by Dawkins still seem to be something of a hot potato. Unfortunately I’ve been unable to ascertain whether hot potatoes are on the lunchtime menu at the St Paul’s Institute (St Paul’s Cathedral, London) tomorrow, Friday 26th September, for this Bishop’s Study Day, but I’m sure there will be plenty of mental hot potatoes being thrown around.

The full title of the day is Beyond The God Delusion: Theological resources for a sceptical age and it brings together an interesting line up of speakers including John Cornwell, author of Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Response to the God Delusion, described by Sally Vickers in the Times Online as:

A PIECE of sheer heaven. It kicks Richard Dawkins’s self-aggrandising polemic, The God Delusion, into touch with featherlight footwork and is deliciously wise, witty and intellectually sharp into the bargain.

The day kicks off with registration and coffee at 9.15am followed by a welcome and introduction from Edmund Newell, Director of the St Paul’s Institute, at 9.45am.

You’ll find the rest of the day’s programme and information about the other speakers on this flyer: Beyond The God Delusion (pdf, 124kb). If you’re in London and you’ve got the day free, it promises to be a good opportunity to get up to speed with the questions and perhaps even come up with some answers… Sorry: clergy only and fully booked; but hopefully we’ll see some enlightened clergy wandering around later…

Fortress Press published a book of the same title — Beyond The God Delusion, Richard Grigg — in March this year and there’s an attempt to discuss this book in the Richard Dawkins forum. The only respondent to the discussion thus far hasn’t read the book: he simply sets out to sweep it aside with a series of generalisations — rather like a lot of people commenting on The God Delusion, unfortunately… perhaps Christians and Atheists have more in common than most like to believe…

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Prepared for Spiritual Battle

Posted on September 23, 2008 by | Leave a comment

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Prepared for Spiritual BattlePrepared for Spiritual Battle 
Inspiring Women Series

Anne Le Tissier 
ISBN 9781853454714 (1853454710) 
CWR, 2008 (112pp) 
£6.99

Category: Devotional 
Subcategory: Women’s Studies 
Reviewed by: Chloe Lynch

This short book (112 pages) has a light readable feel to it. Written especially for women, it is an exploration of the practical application of Ephesians 6:12 and has chapter headings including ‘Army Training’, ‘Know Your Enemy’ and ‘The Armour of God’. It contains helpful illustrations and personal testimony mixed with Scriptural examples from across the whole of the Bible and reviews the theme of the spiritual struggle between God and the forces of evil, within which God’s people are caught.

With only seven chapters, those with the time could plan to read a chapter a day over the course of a week. Others might prefer to read the book more slowly, but however the reader chooses to approach LeTissier’s work, they will be encouraged to take time at the end of each chapter to reflect on what they have read. This final section of each chapter contains questions for consideration and personal application together with some thought-inspiring quotations.  Finally, the reader is led in a prayer which follows the main themes of the preceding chapter.

Perhaps the most important thing to say about this book is that it is accessible to the new Christian. It is full of Scriptural references but these do not derogate from the flow of the discussion in the text and, further, the importance of these references is explained at every stage. It would also be attractive to use with a new Christian because it offers very practical application and real-life advice about the Christian walk, without being overtly super-spiritual. Personally, I would consider using this book as a basis for discussion and mentoring of new Christians in one to one and small group settings.

The value of its material on spiritual warfare and godly living is not, of course, limited to women; however, the choice clearly to aim the book at women alone has the disadvantage of making it unsuitable for use with mentoring men. This is a shame but appears to be a publishing decision as this book forms part of the CWR series of ‘books for women’. Nevertheless, if you are working with women who have newly become Christians, consider whether this book could form part of your discipling process with them.

Chloe Lynch, September 2008

Chloe Lynch is a student at London School of Theology and a part-time church leader with a particular interest in the emerging church.

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Shack Attack 2 – and the web is where it’s at!

Posted on September 19, 2008 by | Leave a comment

All of us bloggers already know that the web is where it’s at, of course: that’s why we’re here; but I confess that I found it rather satisfying to see that view independently confirmed in today’s Bookseller:

A recent study of 5,000 internet users by PR company Fleishman-Hillard suggests the internet has eight times the impact of traditional print media on the average consumer’s buying decisions. In the F-H Digital Influence Index, the web was rated as the most influential medium, with double the impact of second-placed television, while magazines and newspapers were at the bottom of the pile.

Hannah Davies, ‘Socially acceptable’, The Bookseller, No. 5350, 19 September 2008, p.26

I note in passing that the study involved “5,000 internet users” so it’s hardly surprising that the internet came out tops, but even so the rest of the article bears reading as an exploration of the ways in which publishers are responding to the online world with their marketing strategies. Earlier today Matt Wardman observed that “The main battle at the moment is to have bloggers taken seriously as commentators” — and here in the world of bookselling I’m happy to say that’s happening as more and more business leaders, big and small, begin to sit up, take notice and make strategic use of Web 2.0 opportunities such as facebook and the various blogging platforms.
The Shack
Back to The Shack, however: whatever its literary merits or theological uncertainties (and to my way of thinking uncertainty is a massive part of what theology — God talk — is about) one thing is clear: it’s taking our nation by storm. Today’s Top 50 chart and analysis (The Bookseller, pp.14-15) puts it at No. 49 (up from No. 80 last week, top of the Heatseekers chart) with last week’s sales logged by Nielsen BookScan at just over 5,000 copies, total sales just shy of 23,000.

The sad and frustrating thing, however, is that this is only part of the story: how many more copies have been — and are being — sold through the hundreds of Christian bookshops here in the UK that are not contributing data to Nielsen BookScan? The Booksellers Association’s Christian Booksellers Group (BA CBG) is the biggest of the BA’s specialist groups, representing some 10% of the BA’s overall membership — and the vast majority of that group are not contributing data. What is it with Christian booksellers that most of us, instead of leading the way, lag behind? Here we have a golden opportunity to help a Christian book climb to the top of the charts and instead of sharing our data we sit on it, keeping it to ourselves!

Yes, I’ve heard the excuses: if we share our data then the mainstream marketplace will have access to it and then Waterstones and W H Smith  and — horror of horrors — Asda and Tesco will begin to stock our lead titles. Well blow me down and knock me senseless, people: wake up, for God’s sake!! Stop being so pathetically precious about protecting our corner of the marketplace! Why did you go into this business in the first place? It wasn’t for the money and the profit margins, was it? It was out of a sense of mission: to get the good news about Jesus — yes, the Gospel, for heaven’s sake!! — out there on the high street.

That’s why we’re there: to share the good news. Part of that, surely, must be sharing our data to help get the good news out of our back street shops into the high street shops where people are going to find it. And if you happen to be one of the fortunate few whose Christian bookshop is in a prime location, you’ve got all the more reason to join in: because when Woollies across the road begin to sell your bestsellers you can ramp up your window displays and negotiate with your suppliers for better terms to keep yourself on a level playing field. Your message: we put it there!

Whatever your views of The Shack‘s theology and the answers it offers, this is something that all of us ought to be a part of, an opportunity to talk about that burning question of where God is in the midst of our nightmares and the atrocities of child abductions and murder: what kind of God is this we believe in?

Christian Marketplace, September 2008Finally, a challenge for Clem Jackson at Christian Marketplace: give us back the real charts, please, Clem. By all means run them alongside the Wesley Owen and St Andrew’s Bookshops charts — but please don’t pander to those who want to keep their data to themselves. Yes, Christian bookselling is a specialist marketplace; but let’s not pretend it’s happening in its own little world: let’s look at the big picture and rise to the challenge that Hodder and Windblown Media have set before us.

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Living Hope

Posted on September 18, 2008 by | Leave a comment

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Living HopeLiving Hope 
Pocket Devotions from Every Day With Jesus

Selwyn Hughes 
ISBN 9781853454646 (1853454648) 
CWR, 2008 (376pp) 
£7.99

Category: Devotional 
Reviewed by: Chloe Lynch

This devotional divides the calendar year into six equal tranches, each of which deals with a different topic. These subjects are each explored in depth over a two month period and range from ‘The Power of a New Perspective’ to the ever-useful topic, ‘Building a More Effective Prayer Life’

Contents 
Life’s Hidden Agendas 
Things Most Surely Believed 
Building a More Effective Prayer Life 
The Power of a New Perspective 
Being Alert to Spiritual Danger 
Riding the Winds of Adversity    

About the Author 
Selwyn Hughes was the founder and life-president of CWR and the author of Every Day with Jesus from which this book and its sister volume, Words of Peace, have been compiled.

Each devotional entry designates a portion of Scripture for reading and meditation and then focuses on one or two of the verses within that passage, offering some thoughts for reflection. A suggested prayer in response to the designated reading and reflection then rounds off each day’s devotional. The deliberate choice to group devotionals by larger subject allows for an extended reflection over a period of weeks and CWR have compiled the devotionals to be read in order, sometimes referring back to previous entries.

Whilst you would not use this devotional for serious study of the text, Selwyn Hughes offers some interesting and helpful applications to the verses he selects and the prayer at the end of each entry is especially useful. With entries of no more than 100-150 words, it would be ideal for those who are short on time in the morning but want something to help them start the day with their focus on God. Being pocket-sized, it would also be great bus or tube reading for those who commute!

Even if you would not usually use devotional material yourself, you should consider this well-presented book as a gift for others, perhaps especially a new Christian who would be likely to value particularly the guidance in applying the passages of Scripture to themselves and the suggested prayers.

Chloe Lynch, September 2008

Chloe Lynch is a student at London School of Theology and a part-time church leader with a particular interest in the emerging church.

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Supersimbo’s Chris Tomlin CD Giveaway!

Posted on September 17, 2008 by | Leave a comment

CHRIS TOMLIN CD GIVEAWAY………

Ok folks, hold onto your hats cuz i have a FREE CD for one of you As many of you will know, the  Chris Tomlin cd has just came out and i have a copy to give to someone Who wants it? Well, heres the deal. I will post a review of the album on friday morning along with the lucky winner so you have until then to leave a comment. YES, thats right, JUST LEAVE A COMMENT along with your email address and we will pick the one we like the most…

Read on at supersimbo: CHRIS TOMLIN CD GIVEAWAY

Important: whilst comments here are always very welcome, to be in with a chance of winning the CD, you need to leave a comment over at Supersimbo’s place. Get in quick — there’s only one CD up for grabs — leave a comment that rocks and wait & see…

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SPCK/SSG Update

Posted on September 17, 2008 by | Leave a comment

First, my thanks to everyone who has expressed concern over or offered support — whether publicly or privately — about the ongoing shenanigans with the former SPCK Bookshops. If you’re new to the situation, please read SPCK/SSG: My Story, a brief account of my own involvement.

In general I’ve tried to keep reporting on this situation separate, in the dedicated SPCK/SSG Blog, but we are now at a point where some things may be about to be resolved and wider media attention to the story seems likely.

To summarise: 

At the end of August J Mark Brewer (the Texas attorney who threatened me, Dave Walker and several others with libel action if we refused to stop reporting on this situation) had his case thrown out of the US Bankruptcy Courts with prejudice and as having been submitted in bad faith. This month, Randy Williams, the Trustee to the US Bankruptcy Courts, filed a motion for sanctions against Mr Brewer and his law company, Brewer and Pritchard, P.C.

Brewer has responded with an acknowledgment of some fault but has by no means pleaded guilty to all charges: his full response may be downloaded as a pdf from the SPCK/SSG Downloads page, and Matt Wardman and David Keen have offered some helpful analysis of Brewer’s response.

Meanwhile, back here in the UK, Employment Tribunal hearings for at least 30 former bookshop workers are scheduled to take place tomorrow, Thursday 18th September, in Bury St Edmunds. Please keep those concerned in your prayers.

To conclude, for now:

Mark and Philip Brewer’s behaviour and their frankly abominable treatment of their staff, present and former, as well as their reprehensible attitude towards their customers and suppliers, impacts on the entire Christian book trade and risks bringing all of us into disrepute. On the  SPCK/SSG Blog we have therefore issued a call for anyone with potential evidence that may help with any future legal actions against the Brewers here in the UK to step forward with that evidence: Collecting the Evidence. Links to relevant material may be posted publicly via the comments or may be submitted privately, direct to me.

Thank you.

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Shack Attack – and books on the way out?

Posted on September 14, 2008 by | 9 Comments
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Christian Marketplace, September 2008

As I write I have four magazines spread out before me: September’s Christian Marketplace; October’s Christianity; the Bookseller, 12 September 2008; and The future of books, a special issue Sunday supplement from The Independent, 14 September 2008, which asks, “Can intelligent literature survive in the digital age?”

If we take ourselves seriously as Christian booksellers, it’s a question we can’t afford to ignore. It’s not so much that books per se are doomed: we haven’t quite reached our “iPod moment” yet; it’s intelligent literature that John Walsh, the Independent‘s writer, believes is under threat — books that require us as readers to engage our brains. As with the mainstream bookselling marketplace, there’s no evident threat to the fluff and froth that some publishers seem to want to swamp us with.

And the source of the threat? You’re reading it: the internet. Online writing styles that focus on soundbites and feed on short attention spans… leading to even shorter attention spans until we reach the point where the only things we’ll be reading are the opening sentences of the book reviews… short sharp snapshot summaries swallowed wholesale before — like frogs snapping down flies — our eyes fasten on the next flashing headline.

Walsh cites an article by Nicholas Carr — Is Google Making us Stupid? — to coin the phrase “power browsing”: whizzing through the online information stream at high speed, never settling on anything long enough to focus. Suddenly my mind does a double-take and that image I’ve just painted flips as we become flies snapped down by the frogs…

So I move on quickly to my other three magazines. All three have this in common: The Shack. It’s the book of the moment, the new big Christian publishing phenomenon: endorsed on the cover by Eugene Peterson, endorsed here by Max Turner, Professor of New Testament Studies at London School of Theology, where I’ve now lost track of the quantity sold. I order it in batches of 10 and they fly off the shelves so fast that I have to reorder it the next day: how long have we got before Hodder run out of stock and we face the inconvenience of waiting for a reprint? If anyone from Hodder is reading this, please take note and get that reprint underway now.

I was in W H Smith’s at Waterloo Station earlier today and The Shack was at #24 in the fiction bestsellers.  The Bookseller has it in the #1 position in its “Top 20 Fiction Heatseekers” chart with sales of 3,791 copies.  Christian Marketplace reports that “The Shack makes the Independent” (Industry News, p.7) although, somewhat ironically, a search for The Shack on The Independent online today yields no results and I found no mention of the book in today’s books special supplement (though there’s an interesting review on p.30 by Salley Vickers of Richard Holloway’s latest, Between the Monster and the Saint — Canongate, £14.99; one to stock, perhaps?).

But I’ve saved the best until last: if you haven’t reserved yourself a copy of October’s Christianity magazine, I’d suggest that you do so. Inspired by The Shack‘s success, Andy Peck, the magazine’s former deputy editor, offers us an in-depth feature (pp.14-18) entitled “A new chapter in Christian fiction?”

“Bad Christian fiction,” Andy tells us, “is barely read and when it is good, it is scrutinised within an inch of its book jacket for errors.” (p.15). Quite how that measure applies to a paperback that’s less than half an inch thick escapes me, but I take his point: the Christian Thought Police are out there, eager to protect the rest of us from potentially liberating ideas. Consider: “Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle, believes it contains heresy, especially regarding its view of God, and discourages his church from reading it.” (p.14).

That, to me, says it all: if people like Mark Driscoll disapprove, The Shack‘s author must be onto something: go read it. Today.

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Sarum Books

Posted on September 8, 2008 by | 1 Comment
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Christian Marketplace, September 2008

Mark Clifford, whose redundancy from Sarum College Bookshop was reported here last month, has spoken to Christian Marketplace about his plans for a return to bookselling in Salisbury:

Clifford told Christian Marketplace that he had secured premises in Catherine Street in the city and was hopeful of being able to open by the middle of October. “I am currently finalising all the legal details with the lease etc. and hope to have everything completed in the next couple of weeks.”  

The new shop is to be called Sarum Books and Clifford’s aim is to serve the whole community of Salisbury and maintain the supply of a wide range of Christian books across the theological spectrum.

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