What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith

'As he coaxes well-known figures into sharing their thoughts on what gives purpose to their lives, Stanford raises the big questions: what is a good life? How do we endure grief? How to find purpose in the quotidian?'  Cristina Odone: Catholic Herald

'The book mercifully avoids the temptation to be pious and overly-confessional. Laid bare are real struggles people have to believe...Stanford captures the fact that, for people of faith, their religion is just part and parcel of who they are rather than something they constantly think about...There is food for thought and fascinating insights into a side of life that people rarely talk about publicly.' Michael Kelly: Irish Independent

'My own career as a writer on religious affairs has run in parallel with Stanford's. I have interviewed many of the people included in his book. Journalism is an ephemeral business, but Stanford is one of those journalists whose output, as this collection demonstrates, stands the test of time.'  Ted Harrison: Church Times

A collection of interviews, carried out during a 35-year journalistic career and all originally published in a range of British daily newspapers, as well as in the church press, where well-known names and people of achievement open up unguardedly in conversation about how faith has shaped their lives and their careers and led them into unexpected places.

Published in London by Hodder and Stoughton in hardback and Kindle in March 2018 (ISBN 9781473678057). And in paperback by the same publishers in March 2019 (ISBN 9781473678293) A Portuguese edition is in preparation.