Eastmoor Press

The Family Forest — Healing Across Time

This book contains seven personal accounts of trauma and subsequent healing. In each case, trapped family energy, past and present, is found to be at the root of the problem and release comes through a special eucharist. This is what Dr Kenneth McAll has called “Family Tree Healing”. It concerns the possibility of a special kind of relationship between the living and the dead – one which can be either therapeutic or harmful to those affected by it.   ... more ...

ISBN: 0 9528653 6 9     112 pages   210mm x 148mm     £9.95     Eastmoor Press 2003

Faith, Hope and Therapy — Counselling with St Paul

Roger Grainger is a Parish Minister and also a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. As such, he works in the secular world of everyday. People don’t come to him for religious advice and so as a Christian Priest he has to talk to them in everyday language. However, this doesn’t mean that he has to say different things. This book is about some of the things he finds himself saying to those who come to him for counselling.   “The way you integrate your Christian faith and your psycho-therapeutic understanding is exemplary.” (Robert Shaw)

ISBN: 978 0 9528653 8 4     210mm x 148mm     £9     Eastmoor Press 2009

A Time Like This — Signs of Engagement

At the present time the Christian Church appears to be frightened and disturbed by changes in areas of social life which were previously affected by the worldview of religion. This book is a cry to embrace the secular world — not by surrendering to its values, but by engaging with it in love. The aim of the book is to comfort and reassure Christians of all kinds — members of congregations, theological students, clergy, even perhaps hospital patients.   ... more ...

ISBN: 0 9528653 5 1     169 pages   210mm x 148mm     £5.99     Eastmoor Press 2003

Play it for Real — Christian ways of doing drama

Before we start to look at the business of acting plays in church we have to look more closely at what plays really are so that we can be quite sure that church is the right place to do them. ‘Do’ is the right word to use, because it is what drama actually means. It comes from drao, Greek for ‘I do’. However drama isn’t just doing things, it’s doing them in a certain kind of way. The Oxford Dictionary says it means “a set of events having the unity and progress of a play and leading to catastrophe or consummation.”   ... more ...

ISBN: 0 9528653 3 5     90 pages   210mm x 148mm     £5.99     Eastmoor Press 2001

Some Wakefield Churches

This is an unofficial record of my impressions of some of the churches in Wakefield. I'm fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to preach, minister or worship at nearly all these churches during my time in Wakefield and it is because of the kindness and friendship I have known in these places that I have been encouraged to write this. As you will discover, it is personal rather than scholarly — I simply thought of the churches I love most, and asked Kate Griffin to draw them for me. Some of the churches are shown as they are now and some as they used to be.

ISBN: 0 9528653 4 3     45 pages   13 line drawings     210mm x 148mm     £4.99     Eastmoor Press 2002

A Candle for Peace — Prayers for the Millennium

Chosen by Roger and Doreen Grainger.

Sponsored by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.

Dedicated to Clive Barrett and the Wakefield Prayers for Peace Group.

94 pages   210mm x 148mm     £5.99     Eastmoor Press 2000

Staging Posts — Rites of Passage for Contemporary Christians

In a society which has few meaningful public rituals left, those rites of passage which still remain attract a good deal of attention. Clergy are interested in them because of the baptisms, weddings and funerals they conduct during the course of their daily work, and the considerable pastoral opportunities afforded by these services and the arrangements made in connection with them. Anthropologists and sociologists have been concerned with them ever since, at the beginning of the century, Arnold Van Gennep drew attention to the dramatic effect such rituals have on the psychology of individuals and communities.

ISBN: 0 86303 345 8     72 pages   210mm x 148mm     £5.99     Merlin Books 1987