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Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest

Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest

by ReverendRichardColes (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

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Synopsis

After a life of sex and drugs and the Communards - brilliantly recounted in the highly acclaimed first volume of his memoirs FATHOMLESS RICHES - the Reverend Richard Coles went on to devote his life to God and Christianity. He is also a much-loved broadcaster, presenting SATURDAY LIVE on Radio 4 and giving us regular reason to PAUSE FOR THOUGHT on Radio 2.

What is life like for the parson in Britain today? For centuries the Church calendar - and the Church minister - gave character and personality to British life. Today, however, as the shape of the year has become less distinct and faith no longer as privileged or persuasive, that figure has become far more marginal.

In BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES, Reverend Coles answers this question. From his ordination during the season of Petertide, through Advent and Christmas to Lent and Easter, he gives us a unique insight into his daily experience in the ministry, with all the joy, drama, difficulty and humour which life - and indeed death - serves up in varying measures.

Written with extraordinary charm and erudition, BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES features a multitude of characters and events from parish life against a backdrop of the Christian calendar.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Edition: First Edition, Second Impression
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 06 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0297609882
ISBN 13: 9780297609889

Media 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 *
Author Bio

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