Name: Bringing in the Sheaves By Richard Reverend Coles
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Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest by Richard Reverend Coles

After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to God and Christianity. So what is life like for the parson in Britain today?

From his ordination, through Advent and Christmas to Lent and Easter, Reverend Coles gives us a unique insight into his daily experience in the ministry, with all the joy, hope, drama and difficulty that entails. Written with extraordinary charm and compassion, Bringing in the Sheaves will inspire and inform all who read it.

'All the humour, quirky characters and incidents that life - and death- serve up' Mail on Sunday

Bringing in the Sheaves Reviews

Others mapping the daily clerical grind might hold forth on divine transcendence and immanence, on our fallen natures and need of grace. Not so Richard Coles ... Bringing in the Sheaves is an invitation to see the world as he does: the ultimate in the intimate - after all, what other way is there? -- Christopher Harding * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Bringing in the Sheaves is another lively and perceptive collection of anecdotes and insights derived from his recent experience of juggling daily life as a parish priest with his curious hinterland of burgeoning celebrity. Coles is a witty and likable raconteur -- Phil Harrison * GUARDIAN *
Coles draws on his 11 years in the clergy, with all the humour, quirky characters and incidents that life - and death - serve up * MAIL ON SUNDAY EVENT MAGAZINE *
There is much to teach us and inspire us as well as to entertain and make us laugh -- Paul Richardson * THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER *
His life story is intriguing - pop star to Anglican vicar - but it is his insights into the church's present situation, Christian belief and above all human encounters that are honest, sometimes funny and occasionally revelatory -- Susan Hill * THE SPECTATOR Books of the Year *
An entertaining mix of the sacred and the secular, the gossipy and ritualistic grandeur that attempts to give the reader a feel of the texture of the life of a vicar -- Teddy Jamieson * THE HERALD MAGAZINE *
It's a vision of contemporary Anglicanism as seen through a particular, perhaps slightly glitterballed perspective. I enjoyed it even though I'm an atheist * THE HERALD MAGAZINE *
Richly associative and absorbing -- Nick Curtis * RADIO TIMES *
A series of often hilarious vignettes * SAGA *
It is a delightful compilation of thoughts, memories and incidents, all told with his signature humanity and humour * CHOICE *
Coles offers an engaging portrait of the lived Christian life in a way that speaks openly and intriguingly to both cradle Anglicans and cagey agnostics -- Christopher Landau * CHURCH TIMES *
Screamingly funny -- Thomas Blaikie * THE LADY *
Charming ... This is a book to keep on the arm of your chair and browse through -- Miranda Threlfall-Holmes * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
Great riches, spiritual and worldly, and an honest perspective on humanity -- Susan Hill * THE LADY *

About Richard Reverend Coles

The Reverend Richard Coles is the presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number-one hit single. He read Theology at King's College London, and after ordination worked as a curate in Lincolnshire and subsequently at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge, London. He is the author of Lives of the Improbable Saints and two memoirs, the bestselling Fathomless Riches and Bringing in the Sheaves. He lives in his parish of Finedon, Northamptonshire.

www.richardcoles.com
www.twitter.com/RevRichardColes

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GOR008733716

ISBN 13
9781474600866

ISBN 10
1474600867

Title
Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest by Richard Reverend Coles

Author
Richard Reverend Coles

Condition
Used - Very Good

Binding type
Paperback

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co

Year published
2017-10-05

Number of pages
256

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Bringing in the Sheaves Richard Reverend Coles

Bringing in the Sheaves by Richard Reverend Coles

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