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The Parish Life Volume 5: Stories from St Faithful's, Havnot
Paperback
Series: Scribblings of Canon Tom Kennar
Christian FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 11 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Welcome back to St Faithful's, Havnot.
A place where the kettle is never quite where it should be, the notices are always slightly out of date, and the conversations have a habit of wandering from biscuits to the nature of God without anyone quite noticing.
In this fifth volume of The Parish Life, Tom Kennar returns to the much-loved fictional parish where faith is rarely neat, doubt is never unwelcome, and turning up counts for more than getting everything right.
Across these pages, you'll find a church that feels gloriously familiar:
meetings that should have been emails, sermons that may or may not have gone to plan, and parish debates that drift gently (and sometimes not so gently) into questions of truth, suffering, prayer, and what we really mean when we say God.
There are moments of absurdity, of course-this is St Faithful's. But there are also quieter moments, where something deeper begins to surface: in a conversation in the pub, a muddled attempt at prayer, or the simple act of staying when it might be easier to walk away.
Blending humour, storytelling, and thoughtful reflection, Volume 5 explores what it means to live with faith and doubt side by side-and why, in the end, the most important thing might simply be to keep turning up.
Whether you are a lifelong churchgoer, a cautious sceptic, or someone who isn't quite sure what they believe anymore, you will find yourself at home in Havnot.
Pull up a chair. The kettle's on.
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