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Prayer & Spirituality
The White Stone: The Art of Letting Go Esther De Waal Esther de Waal is one of today’s most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing, and adjusting to a new city environment. In her characteristic style, she sees everything as a portal into a deeper spiritual understanding. She draws on the wealth of the Christian tradition, especially scripture and the monastic and Celtic spiritualities she knows so well, to help her navigate her way through not only the inevitable sense of loss that accompanies such change, but also to embrace the new possibilities it brings. This is a book of simple, profound wisdom that will speak to many coping with change in their own lives.
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Rage and Hope: 75 Prayers for a Better World Chine McDonald and Wendy Lloyd Commemorating 75 years of Christian Aid, this is a prayer book like no other. Bringing together voices from different contexts and cultures around the world, this is a collection of prayers of lament for the injustices of the world, and prayers of hope for the world we want to see. Featuring contributions from Rowan Williams, Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, Rhidian Brook, Robert Beckford, John Bell, Rachel Treweek, Walter Brueggemann and many more, Rage and Hope offers defiant, inspiring Christian prayers for a better world.
More Than Words
Hannah Dunnett Hannah presents her much-loved illustrations alongside each one's background story. Learn about her inspiration and journey of faith, as you find encouragement and reflect on the art's Scriptures through questions. A must-have for fans of Hannah's art!
Hb | 76 pgs | MONARCH REF 1636 RRP £12.99 Aslan £9.99 See Hannah’s NIV Journalling Bible on page 14
Stephen Cherry
Barefoot Ways: Praying Through Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Especially helpful for people with a heavy workload - whether lay or ordained - Barefoot Ways offers the reader a poetic, prayerful meditation for every day of December and January. It connects with the spiritual themes of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany and takes the reader from the first days of a new Christian year to the feast of Candlemas on February 2nd.
Also available: Barefoot Prayers - REF 4173
RRP £9.99 Aslan £6.99
REF 2722 RRP £10.99 Aslan £8.49 When You Pray
Joanna Collicutt In this updated edition of a classic, Joanna shows how growing as a Christian is rooted in the prayer Jesus gave us. As we pray the Lord's Prayer, we express our relationship with God, absorb Gospel values and are motivated to live them out.
Pb | 208 pgs | BRF
REF 2787 RRP £9.99 Aslan £6.99 Augustine's Life of Prayer, Learning and Love
Cally Hammond There are many biographies on how Augustine shaped Western Christianity. This isn't a book about his faith and doubts, it's about how he learned to read the Bible, pray, and love - the Word at the heart of faith.
Pb | 144 pgs | BRF
Pray: Food For the Journey Elizabeth McQuoid Prayer is hard. We'd rather be doing something else. Anything really. But God commands us to pray. And to do so continually. Jesus taught his disciples to pray, and that model prayer can become the basis of our prayers too. We need to pray deeper, more fervent prayers. Or, as the Puritans used to say, we need to 'pray until we pray'. We should see prayer as a privilege, not a duty, and certainly not a burden. This devotional offers timeless wisdom and encouragement from Michael Baughen, Alistair Begg, Raymond Brown, David Coffey, Jonathan Lamb, Paul Mallard, Bruce Milne, Calisto Odede and Rico Tice.
Pb | 138 pgs | IVP REF 3362 RRP £4.99 Aslan £4.49
The Way of St Benedict
Rowan Williams With typical eloquence and wisdom, Rowan Williams explores the appeal of St Benedict's sixth-century Rule, showing it to be a document of great relevance to present-day Christians and nonbelievers. For over a millennium the Rule has been influential on the life of Benedictine monks, but has also served in some sense as a 'background note' to almost all areas of civic experience: artistic, intellectual and institutional. The effects of this on society have been far-reaching and Benedictine communities and houses still attract countless visitors, testifying to the appeal and continuing relevance of Benedict's principles.
All Shall Be Well: The Revelations of Divine Love of Julian of Norwich Sheila Upjohn All Shall Be Well is widely considered to be the clearest modern rendering of Revelations of Divine Love, the 'showings' received from God by the 15th-century anchoress Julian of Norwich, which have brought comfort and hope to countless people around the world. Sheila Upjohn's acclaimed translation provided the bestselling Enfolded in Love selection of Julian's words.
Pb | 208 pgs | DLT REF 4612 RRP £8.99 Aslan £6.99
