The rebranding of CMF’s publications has been well-received. Extra copies of Introducing CMF are available free on request from the CMF Office. Have you invited a colleague to join yet? The new design, which has already transformed Triple Helix, CMF News and Nucleus, is going to be extended over all CMF’s books, booklets, CDs and websites over the next few months. Dr Andrew Fergusson’s excellent book Hard Questions about Health and Healing was published in April 2005. Christianity described it as ‘thought provoking, challenging and enlightening’. Have you read it yet? Have you bought extra copies to give to friends and colleagues?

The editing of Mad, Bad and Sad is progressing well and the book is expected to be published by January 2006. Chapters include: What is mental disorder? Childhood influences on antisocial behaviour; Treatment approaches for those with antisocial personality disorders, psychopathy and sex offenders; Responsibility and the mentally ill offender; Treatments used in psychiatry; Personal responsibility and its relationship to substance misuse; Demons and evil in a Christian context.

The Publications Committee have agreed to publish a new series entitled The best of... The first book in the series will be The best of David Short. It is hoped the book will be published by Spring 2006.

The Bulgarian edition of Matters of Life and Death has been published recently. The cost of translation and printing were paid for by CMF.

We have a major opportunity to continue to support Chinese colleagues who wish to translate CMF files 24-29 into Chinese (the first 23 Files have already been translated with our financial support) and produce 2,000 booklets containing all 29 Files. Will you help us by donating to the Publications Fund? We need just £2,000 – that’s just £1 covering all translation and production costs for each booklet.