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Christian publisher SPCK is launching a new non-fiction imprint called Form.
Launching in July and headed by senior commissioning editor Elizabeth Neep, the imprint will publish books “that help busy readers to cultivate spiritual rhythms and practices in everyday life”.
Among its first titles, Form has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to John Mark Comer's Live No Lies, which will publish in September 2021, with a second book to follow in 2023. The book “equips readers to recognise the lies and resist the forces that seek to steal their happiness, wholeness, and holiness”.
Neep said: “'Spiritual formation' may not be a term that everyone is familiar with, but we are all aware of its practices, whether that be pursing solitude and silence or spending time in nature. Now more than ever, it seems that readers are hungry to develop daily rhythms and routines that will help them maintain good mental, emotional and spiritual health.”
Also on the list is Dancing at the Still Point: Retreat Practices for a Busy Life by spiritual director and lecturer Dr Gemma Simmonds, “an accessible guide to DIY and at-home retreats that will help readers to make life-giving daily choices and find God in all things”.
It is joined by Be Still: A Simple Guide to Quiet Times by Brian Heasley, Seven Ways to Pray by Amy Boucher-Pye, and And Yet: Finding Joy in Lament by Rachael Newham, founder of mental health charity ThinkTwice.
Newham said: “I’m so excited that And Yet is a part of the launch list for Form, in a world where we are bombarded with messages on how to be better and do more, I love that Form books encourage us to pause and rethink the influences we are allowing to shape us and the rhythms we can use to find clarity and hope in an uncertain world.”
The launch list will also include a number of revised and refreshed spiritual formation classics, including Frank C Laubach’s Letters by a Modern Mystic, carrying a new foreword by Pete Greig and a 20th anniversary edition of Dallas Willard’s Renovation of the Heart featuring additional material from Comer and Natasha Robinson, which will be co-published by NavPress in the US in autumn 2021.
Form is open for submissions which can be sent directly to Neep eneep@spck.org.uk.