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Lent
Isabelle Hamley In the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book for 2022, Isabelle Hamley invites us on an exhilarating journey through Scripture to discover how we, as churches, communities and individual Christians, can seek and practice justice even when enmeshed in such a fractured world. Full of practical encouragement, Embracing Justice brilliantly weaves together biblical texts, diverse voices, contemporary stories, and personal and group meditations to reveal liberating and imaginative ways in which we may grow in discipleship - and more fully reflect the justice, mercy and compassion of Christ in our lives.
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The Way of the Franciscans: A Prayer Journey Through Lent Daniel P. Horan OFM Whereas some religious traditions within Christianity offer a singular approach or spiritual focus, the Franciscan tradition is wonderfully diverse and manifold. The Way of the Franciscans is a lovely Lent book for 2022 that offers a practical introduction to Franciscan spirituality, and the many distinctive and dynamic approaches to prayer, contemplation and action found within it. As well as exploring the history of the different Franciscan spiritual traditions and how they are united in their focus on living according to the Gospels, it offers practical, applicable guidance for making Franciscan spirituality part of your everyday prayer life.
Hearing God in Poetry: Fifty Poems for Lent and Easter Richard Harries From Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry invites you to take a closer look at fifty great poems by some of the finest poets in the English language. Some are well known, some deserve to be better known, but all say something distinctive that will lift your spirit. This beautiful Lent book for 2022 offers six poems for every week from Ash Wednesday, leading up to Holy Week, with ten poems specially chosen for Easter. A short reflection from Richard Harries accompanies each poet and the poem, drawing out their spiritual insights and how they communicate God’s presence.
Sharing the Easter Story: From Reading to Living the Gospel Sally Welch In this year’s BRF Lent book Sally Welch explores two questions: What is the Easter story really about, and how do we share it? Through each week of Lent, a different aspect of the Easter story is examined: repenting, changing, hoping, trusting, forgiving, loving and sacrificing. Within each week, the days are focused on what we need to do in order to share the story: listening, understanding, reflecting, living, telling, sharing and becoming. Each day offers a Bible passage, followed by a reflection and prayer activity.
Pb | 208 pgs | BRF REF 5382 RRP £8.99 Aslan £7.49
The Hour is Come: The Passion in Real Time Andrew Nunn The Gospel accounts change when we come to the final days of Jesus’ life and for the first time we are given precise timings when things happen, ‘It was night’, ‘the next morning’, ‘it was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him’, ‘it was noon’, ‘it was three o’clock in the afternoon’. The Hour is Come enables readers to enter into the experience of Jesus, his disciples and all the other players in the Passion narrative by using ‘real time’ to immerse us in the story. Ideal for daily reading during Lent, Holy Week and Easter, it offers scripture reflections and prayers that trace the journey to and beyond the cross. This presentation reveals a God so intimately involved with human life that the ticking clock becomes part of how we know Jesus.
The Grace-filled Wilderness
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Magdalen Smith Connect contemporary encounters of wilderness with the traditional themes of Lent and Jesus' journey to the cross. Introducing a series of 'double-edged' subjects, Magdalen uncovers how these bring us life as well as potentially drain life from us when we fall into them in the wrong way. How we deal with our appetites; what gives us identity; how to live with the freedom and power we hold; ways to overcome the underlying anxiety which is wrapped around so much of contemporary life and faith - all of these are explored in connection with what it means to be followers of Jesus. And as each week progresses from 'wilderness to grace', we move through Lent and Holy Week into the glorious hope of Easter.
Pb | 216 pgs | SPCK REF 3013 RRP £9.99 Aslan £7.99 Thy Will Be Done: The 2021 Lent Book
Stephen Cherry At a time of change, uncertainty and widespread anxiety, we need to discover again the freshness of our most familiar spiritual resources. Stephen Cherry's Lent book does exactly this by inviting the reader to immerse themselves in the most central, important and iconic of Christian prayers - the Lord's Prayer. Mining the tradition for wisdom and insight, and finding inspiration in the theologians of the past such as St. Paul, Gregory of Nyssa, John Calvin, but also more contemporary voices such as Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil and Michelle Obama, Thy Will Be Done presents the comforts and challenges of the prayer in 36 short chapters.
Pb | 224 pgs | BLOOMSBURY REF 3741 RRP £9.99 Aslan £7.99 Rooted in Love: Lent Reflections on Life in Christ Sarah Mullally Who is the Christ we serve? What does it mean to be part of the body of Christ? How can we live more Christ-centred lives? Introduced and edited by Bishop Sarah Mullally, here are forty reflections that lead us deeper into the meaning and practice of life in Christ today. Drawing on the collective wisdom of all the area bishops in the Diocese of London, each reflection includes a Bible reading, a prayer and a suggestion for action based on the reading. The result is an exceptionally helpful Lent book, offering a rich array of biblical insight and spiritual guidance that Christians of all traditions will warmly welcome and appreciate.
Celtic Lent: 40 Days of
Devotions to Easter David Cole This inspirational book takes the reader through the 40 days of Lent to the celebration of Easter through the eyes and beliefs of Celtic Christianity.
Pb | 160 pgs | BRF REF 2562 RRP £8.99 Aslan £7.99 Breathing Deep
Ian Adams Ian Adams draws on the Gospel stories of the resurrection of Jesus to create 40 'invitations', each one offering a path for the resurrection to reshape how we live.
Pb | 96 pgs | CANTERBURY PRESS REF 2013 RRP £8.99 Aslan £7.99 Where the Lost Things Go
Lucy Berry Where the Lost Things Go is a 'practically perfect' Lent course for small group study - or for reading on one's own - based on the popular film Mary Poppins Returns.
Pb | 112 pgs | DLT REF 3000 RRP £6.99 Aslan £5.99 Lent Talks:
A Collection of Broadcasts This hand-picked selection from BBC Radio 4's popular Lent Talks will help you to discover anew the meaning of Jesus' ministry and passion.
Pb | 80 pgs | SPCK REF 2026 RRP £7.99 Aslan £5.99
REF 2613 RRP £7.99 Aslan £5.49 Towards Jerusalem
Steve Brady Cities are places of anonymity, violence and feelings of God forsakenness. But God has an agenda; the Bible is full of significant cities and city imagery, culminating in God's 'holy city', birthed through His people. This unique Lent book is a vision of 'Zion', and transformation today.
Pb | 192 pgs | BRF REF 3007 RRP £9.99 Aslan £7.99 The Way of Benedict
Laurentia Johns OSB Our world needs Christ's light and peace. One way to bring these blessings is to attend to our hearts. In this practical guide for Lent and the rest of the year, Laurentia distils the 6th Century Rule of St Benedict as a series of blessings, with ideas for reflection and action. Based on Scripture, the Rule shows that all of life has a Lenten theme, and points to a joyful eternity. Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings Pb | 108 pgs | SPCK C. S. Lewis Together in one special volume, selections from the best of beloved, bestselling author C. S. Lewis’ classic works for readers contemplating the ‘grand miracle’ of Jesus’ resurrection. Preparing for Easter is a concise, handy companion for the faithful of all Christian traditions and the curious to help them deepen their knowledge and consideration of this holy season – a time of reflection as we consider Jesus’ sacrifice and his joyous rise from the dead. Carefully curated, each selection in Preparing for Easter draws on a major theme in Lewis’ writings on the Christian life, as well as others that consider why we can have confident faith in what happened on the cross.
A Place For God
Graham James Graham looks at places around the world, from Dogura (Papua New Guinea) to St Germans (Cornwall), WW2 bunkers in Valetta, Dominus Flevit (Jerusalem), the Moses Room (House of Lords), 39 Waltham Close (his flat as a curate) and more. Some are well known, others obscure, each have been part of Graham's discovery of the divine. Structured as 40 short chapters, one for each day of Lent, this is a journey of discovering God in everything, everywhere.
REF 1246 RRP £9.99 Aslan £4.99 Glimpses of Glory
David Bryant Facing terminal cancer, David writes powerfully about his life and moments when he encountered God in unlikely places: a prison; at the bedside of a dying child; and in Bible passages that were brought to life in his own experiences. See Lent through these glimpses.
Pb | 208 pgs | CONTINUUM REF 3002 RRP £8.99 Aslan £6.99 You Are Mine
Daily Bible Readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day David Walker David explores different aspects of belonging through Scripture and story in order to help us recognise the different ways in which we are God's beloved. And as we recognise ourselves and our own lives in the narrative of God's engagement with humanity and his creation, he gently challenges us to engage for God's sake with God's world.
Pb | 144 pgs | BRF
Barefoot Prayers
Stephen Cherry Part of a sequence of beautifully crafted prayer-meditations, providing simple yet profound spiritual nourishment for the Lenten season. The book gives an engaging introduction to the different ways that prayer can work in the lives of the busiest of Christians. Barefoot Prayers is ideal for people who may have little time for sitting and reading but more time for thinking and reflecting. A bestseller from the author of Barefoot Disciple and Barefoot Ways.
An Ocean of Grace: A Journey to Easter with Great Voices from the Past Tim Chester A collection of daily devotions and prayers by great Christian writers from throughout church history, including Augustine, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan, Catherine Parr and Martin Luther. Their time-tested words continue to paint a compelling portrait of Christ’s death and resurrection, and will encourage and inspire readers as much today as they did when they were first written. Each daily reading has been selected, edited and introduced by Tim Chester to make these treasures accessible to every reader. They will help you reflect on Jesus in the run-up to Easter. Ideal to start at the beginning of Lent.
Pb | 160 pgs | GOOD BOOK COMPANY REF 3914 RRP £7.99 Aslan £6.99
