Holiness and Desire: What makes us who we are?

Jessica Martin was formerly a Fellow in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is now a Canon of Ely Cathedral. She was a theological adviser to the Bishops’ working Party on Human Sexuality and is a member of the influential Littlemore group of theologians.

‘Illuminating, challenging and liberating - a vital part of the conversation about the way we live now.’ -- Sarah Perry, prizewinning author of The Essex Serpent.

'The weaving together of scholarship, personal narrative, history and scripture is a faithful, needed and ultimately redemptive offering to us all.' -- Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of New York Times bestseller Shameless

'This book knocks right through the various 'official stories' which we tell ourselves, inside and outside churches. Reading it strengthens my feeling that the decline of Christendom has opened the way for a remarkable flowering of new avenues towards the faith’. -- Charles Taylor, Templeton prizewinner and author of A Secular Age

'Profound yet simple; robust yet vulnerable. Reading it is like reflecting on life and one’s own story in front of an amazing piece of art’. -- Rachel Treweek