My Books

Each of my books is the result of a passionate concern of the time it was written. I wrote The Reclaiming of Wisdom when issues of women in the church were in the forefront of Christian thinking. For me the concern to explore the traditions of God as Feminine was vital to our understanding of present-day issues. Each of the books, in their own way, carry this concern for relevance for life in the spirit in the here and now, especially in the lives of women, young and old. The History Book is the exception, that was just for the fun and the joy of it!

This little book was written for my daughter Elain because she enjoys historical books and films but, as she didn’t get any English or European history at school has little idea where ‘everyone fits’. Not everyone who played a part in the making of history is included in these pages but, I hope everyone who […]

Throughout evolution it has always been the misfit that has been the agent of creative change. Misfits continually cause the present to be transcended. Darryl Reaney As a lifelong misfit I was much cheered many years ago by reading Dr Darryl Reaney’s book The Death of Forever.  There was so much in this work that […]

This revised edition of Seeking Sophia has been prepared for use on-line.  It may be thought that in a world where so many books are published each year one that has been around for quite some years would not need to be re-issued.  Two factors have persuaded me to make it once more available.

Grief’s Hermitage is an anthology or common-place book for anyone grieving who wants something to dip into now and then when sadness is looking for the odd clue or for a momentary balm. The pieces are not arranged to be read progressively; grief is the only organising principle. To arrange the material according to ‘the […]

This Year for Joy is a day book or bedside book. The daily readings are a potpourri of myths, poems meditations, and the occasional anecdote set within a contemporary Christian context. There are suggestions for activities and meditations for most days and each month clusters loosely around a theme, pegged by the old calendar of […]

Archaeologists and anthropologists attest to the fact that aeons ago, before man recorded history, the Great Mother was worshipped as the foremost deity. In historical time, in the Mediterranean world and beyond, in the centuries before Christ, Isis was known as ‘the greatest god of all the nations’.  Sophia became the ‘legitimate’ representation of the […]