John Cox
Having spent a rather long time at various universities including Cambridge, Oxford and the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, John was ordained to a curacy in the diocese of Liverpool in 1968. He spent a second curacy in an inner-city ex-slum parish in Birmingham and became rector in the same parish. After a five year period at Church House Westminster where he was Senior Selection Secretary, helping to select ordinands, he was made Canon Treasurer at Southwark Cathedral and Diocesan Director of Ordinands and Post-ordination training.
Following four years as Vicar of Roehampton he moved to become Archdeacon of Sudbury in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich in 1995. When he retired in 2006 he was asked to be the part-time Diocesan Director of Education, a job he did for nearly four and a half years before retiring for a second time. It has been during these retirement years that John has been writing for Kevin Mayhew, in between being chair of governors of two primary schools, playing golf and enjoying river cruises.
- The Bumper Book Of Easter, Ascension & Pentecost (Volume 4)The Bumper Book of Resources: Easter, Ascension & Pentecost draws together material from a wide range of sources, includes CD-ROM providing activity sheets and illustrations to enliven learning and interactive worship. An invaluable resource for anyone seeking help with prayers, services, ...£32.99
- More Than Caring And SharingChurch schools are different not because they are exclusive but because they are distinctive. But just what constitutes this distinctiveness? It is more than a matter of 'caring and sharing'. This timely book seeks to help all concerned with education in church schools to explore this question. ...£13.99
- The Bumper Book Of Resources: Advent, Christmas & Epiphany (Volume 2)The Bumper Book of Resources: Advent, Christmas & Epiphany Draws together material from a wide range of sources, includes downloadable resources (available in the Resources Tab) providing activity sheets and illustrations to enliven learning and interactive worship. An invaluable resource ...£32.99
- Being A Better PCCHow to be more effective in the life and mission of the local church Written by a former archdeacon, here is an invaluable brief guide to the working of PCCs and the responsibilities of churchwardens. While of interest and assistance to all PCC members and even experienced churchwardens, the ...£9.99
- Let's Be Honest About Our DoubtsA six-week group study course, ideal for Lent but suitable for any time of year. John Cox takes an honest look at various aspects of the complex and often thorny subject of doubt. Session 1: The nature of doubt Session 2: What the Old Testament says about doubt Session 3: What the Gospels say ...Featured£9.99
- More Sermons On Difficult SubjectsTackling difficult subjects from the pulpit is not an easy task: it takes a degree of courage and sensitivity. Reluctance to risk such preaching often stems from simply not knowing how to go about it. There are many more difficult subjects than could be addressed in the first book of this ...£18.99
- Critical FriendThe work of school governors is important, worthwhile but increasingly demanding. A good set of governors can make a considerable difference to a school.At the heart of good governance are good relationships: with one another, the head teacher, staff, parents, the community, and children. In ...£12.99 - £14.99
- Growing In The Faith - Confirmation Course For AdultsA Confirmation Course for Adults Confirmation is a significant event in a person's journey of faith and Christian commitment. In this preparation course for adults, John Cox provides sessions on key topics including Me, The Bible, Prayer and God. There is an extended introduction for each ...£9.99
- The Bumper Book Of Resources: Harvest, All Saints, All Souls, (Volume 1)The Bumper Book of Resources: Harvest, All Saints, All Souls, & Remembrance draws together material from a wide range of sources and includes downloadable providing activity sheets and illustrations to enliven learning and interactive worship. An invaluable resource for anyone seeking help ...£32.99
- The Bumper Book Of Resources: Holy Week (Volume 3)The Bumper Book of Resources: Holy Week draws together material from a wide range of sources, includes digital files providing activity sheets and illustrations to enliven learning and interactive worship. An invaluable resource for anyone seeking help with prayers, services, sermon ideas and ...£32.99
- Bumper Book Of Resources: Dying, Death & Funerals (Volume 5)This Bumper Book (together with its companion volumes) draws together material from a wide range of sources and a number of top authors to create an invaluable resource for anyone seeking help with prayers, services, sermon ideas and illustrative material both for general and all-age worship.£19.99
- Hard Pews, Boring Sermons And No Loos?Excuses and reasons why people don't go to church Popular author John Cox offers suggestions why fewer people are going to church these days and where the church needs to take action. In the first part of the book he looks at the main reasons people give - some of them may even be just excuses ...£12.99
- How To Be A Great School GovernorIdeal for: School Governors School Heads Anyone considering becoming a school governor£14.99
- Songs For A Servant Church (Cox)A rich blend of traditional, well-loved tunes and contemporary compositions has yielded this fine collection of hymns and songs that challenge the Church to live up to its calling to be a servant, both of God and his world. Written out of deep personal faith and a powerful sense of justice and ...£27.99
- A Risk Worth TakingHere is a collection of sessions for both adult individuals and groups that explore the experiences that make people question their belief in a loving god. From the horrors of war and violence and the personal agony of illness and pain, to the question of luck and rewards, the topics are ...£10.99
- In All SensesSight, hearing, touch, smell and taste are the five physical senses, but there are many more senses we can use to explore the meaning of Christmas - a sense of balance, a sense of justice, a sense of wonder, a sense of mystery, a sense of purpose, and so on. In all Senses focuses on these many ...£8.99 - £9.99
- Fast And FeastLent is traditionally a time of fasting. All too easily we can see fasting in negative terms - of things given up. But we should also consider what we could increase and do more of. This set of daily Lenten meditations suggests something of each - some things to give up and some to take on. To ...£12.99
- Cross ExaminedThe Crucified and Resurrection Christ are icons, objects of worship and veneration, and our understanding of them cannot be separated from their place in scripture, liturgy and devotion. In them we find Christ looking at us, disturbing us with questions which confront us, out institutions, ...£12.99
- The Voice Of The ProphetProphecy is about proclaimation as well as prediction, of forth-telling and not simply for-telling. The Prophet's message is of hope as well as judgement, of God's new future as well as humankind's past misdeeds. p>This six-week course for Advent through Epiphany listens to the vioce of the ...£8.99
- Dreams And VisionsAs a resource for preachers this latest book by John Cox studies thirty dreams and visions reported through pages of Scripture, from Jacob's vision of the ladder to Mary's vision of the angel Gabriel announcing she would be the mother of Jesus. Each of the thirty sections explores something of ...£12.99
- Life Is Not A Game Of PerfectIn trying to be 'perfect' it is possible to miss being 'better'. Insights from the world of golf are drawn upon in this six-week group course as an aid to understanding the life of faith and the spirit. (Don't worry, all golfing terms are explained for the non-golfer!) John Cox, former ...£9.99