I've just received the first preview copy of my new book: Being a Chaplain, edited with my good friend Mark Newitt. Mark is a hospital chaplain in Sheffield, and together we've put together the first new book on chaplaincy for over a decade. It includes 22 contributions from a huge range of chaplains working in all sorts of contexts including several different schools, universities, hospitals, prisons, and the armed forces. The contributors are both lay and ordained, from the Anglican, Methodist, Baptist and Roman Catholic churches, several working in multi-faith chaplaincies. There are also four chapters offering theological reflection: Andrew Todd on multi-faith chaplaincy; Mark Newitt on the role and skills of a chaplain; and me on models of chaplaincy, and 'values and tensions'.

It's published in June, but you can pre-order it on Amazon should you so wish!