Resources
Library
Our library contains a large selection of books, which may be borrowed. There are also audio and video titles in the library. If you wish to borrow these please take the cassette box to the Receptionist.
Articles and leaflets
A number of leaflets on various subjects are on display and available in Reception, most of these are written by either previous or the current chaplain.
Please note these leaflets are not definitive statements of the views of the Fellowship - they are resources which we and others have found helpful. If there are other issues or aspects of the leaflets on which you would like further discussion, please do get in touch and we will respond as we are able.
The following leaflets are available as Web articles:
Information about the Fellowship
- About the Christian Fellowship of Healing
A summary of how the fellowship is run: aims, groups, prayer cards, intercessors, events, membership. - Who we are
An introduction to who we are and what we do, by Helen Richardson. - How we can help you
The love of God heals, plus a list of all the leaflets. - What do you expect?
For those coming for ministry, by Ian Cowie. - How we deal with prayer requests
Prayer is our job, by Ian Cowie.
Principles in Christian healing work
Principles that have guided us in Christian Healing Work.
- Healing threads
Showing the many different ways in which healing happens, by Jenny Williams. - Koinonia (in communion)
Being the body of Christ and studying the Gospels. - We are healing all the time
Healing as a natural process, by Jenny Williams.
To offer you support
- Crisis
What a crisis is and what to do next, by Ian Cowie. - Forgiveness
What are the choices if somebody hurts me?, by Ian Cowie. - Grief Journey
The different stages of grief, by David Flagg. - Light in Darkness
Lines of thought in poetic form offering light in the darkness, by Ian Cowie. - Understanding me
Three poems: The Loom of Life, God and me and Faith, by Ian Cowie. - Who said it was incurable?
Hoping for a miracle? Working with others, by Ian Cowie. - You and your doctor
Five ways to wholeness
Ways of offering Christian healing
- Christian listeners
What, why, where of how to do Christian Listening, by Ian Davidson. - Listening to God
Praying in groups of three (Christian Listening) - Healing times and spaces
by Jenny Williams. - Inner healing: The healing of memories
For when we have hurt people or been hurt by them, by Ian Cowie. - A healing ministry
How to provide a ministry of healing in your parish? by Ian Davidson. - His tool rack
The tools we use when healing, intercession, group prayers, laying-on of hands, sacraments, anointing with oil, healing memories, christian listening, etc, by Ian Cowie. - Intercession
How to intercede on behalf of othersm by Ian Cowie.
Healing prayers
- Hand prayers
Praying through the week using the body not words, by Jenny Williams. - Pray for...
What happens when we pray for others? - Prayer is our job
The real basis of the work we do is the prayer which goes on in chapel throughout the day. - Prayer research
About prayer research, by Anne Douglas. - Praying for healing
How to pray for others, by Jenny Williams. - Spiritual disciplines
How to approach prayer as a discipline. - Three prayers
Three prayers to be used before communion (St Patrick's Breastplate)
Other resources
Spirited Scotland
Jenny Williams also wrote an article for Spirited Scotland (Spring 2004, p.4): Spirituality in Healthcare and Christian Healing (PDF, 2,098 KB)
York Courses
York Courses provide a series of leaflets and the one entitled The Archbishop's School Of... Healing And Wholeness is very good.
Guild of St Raphael
Archbishop Rowan Williams also wrote an article for the Guild of St Raphael which encompasses the theology of healing.
Parish Church of St Cuthbert, Edinburgh
The Christian Fellowship of Healing and the Parish Church of St Cuthbert are working together on a series of Short Courses called Ministry of Healing through Prayer to resource Christian healing.
See also Links with other organisations.