This wise and beautiful book, written in the form of spiritual letters, reflects on the themes of home and being at home: with ourselves, with each other, with the times we are living through, and with God. Nazareth, where Jesus spent his first thirty years, was a physical home but also a spiritual home and the place of nurture, dreaming, formation and becoming. Richard Carter offers a wealth of insight for experiencing how, as Christians, we carry Nazareth, the place of God’s incarnate presence, with us wherever we are and how it becomes a home where the Word is made flesh again in our lives and we find our place of deepest belonging. Rich in biblical reflection, poetic meditation and practical guidance for living in demanding times, Letters from Nazareth abounds in simple yet profound wisdom for our world today.

Richard Carter is a priest at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London’s Trafalgar Square and leader of its Nazareth Community. He is the author of the bestselling The City is My Monastery and In Search of the Lost, a moving first-hand account of loss and grief after the violent deaths of seven members of a religious order in the Solomon Islands.