‘Inspiring and practical’
‘A beautiful and accessible read containing a message that so many of us need to hear and remember time and time again.’
‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’ is one of Jesus’s most well-known and often quoted sayings. (Mark 12:31) Probably most of us feel comfortable with the ‘love your neighbour’ part of Jesus’s words: thinking of others, being kind to people.
But what about, ‘as yourself’? To have love for ourselves in the same way as we love others? Umm… more tricky, that.
Loving Yourself explores how our love for both neighbour and ourselves stems from God’s love for us. It considers the background and context of Jesus’s words; what it means (and what it doesn’t mean) to have love for ourselves; and how we can love ourselves in a way which enables us to love our neighbour. The book offers practical suggestions – and, yes, wrestles with some of the trickier parts too.
‘This is a book to linger with and to apply to daily living and spiritual practice. It is a book that is compassionate and realistic, honest and accessible, offering down-to-earth tips borne from lived experience and forged in the furnace of life.
There is something in it for everyone. Drink deeply from this wisdom well and trust that the living water it contains will nourish the parched or dry places in yourself.’
From the Foreword by Canon Deborah Parsons, Canon Chancellor, Exeter Cathedral.
Watch the Book Launch; Julia Craig-McFeely, Editor at SLG Press talking about why they published the book; and Richard talking to Good News Bookshop about why he wrote it! Also read reviews on Goodreads and elsewhere.
RRP: £7.00 Available directly from Richard (£7 + p&p; eBook: £2) or contact SLG Press.
Also from Choice Words (Newton Abbot), Church House Bookshop, Goodliving (Bideford) & Good News Bookshop (Loughborough).
Also available as an eBook and AI Audio Book from Amazon.
Published 2025 by SLG Press (Fairacres Publications Series).