Lent is approaching. 🕊️ These four titles offer profound reflections on the cross and Christ's sacrifice—resources for both ministry leaders and individuals walking through the forty days. 🙏 Check them out on our website: https://loom.ly/CJ08dbw

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Book review: Giving Thanks: Rediscovering the heart of gratitude by Philip Plyming Peter McGeary seeks to be unfeignedly thankful

"The book is a devotional exegesis of a wonderful prayer that deserves much wider use. The focus is not on me and what I need, but, rather, on God and what God has done and does."

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Anne Spalding looks at advice on the practice of spiritual direction JULIA MOURANT’s focus here is on the spiritual director as a person, not primarily on the “how” of spiritual direction. She is clear that a spiritual director (or accompanier) cannot be present with an explorer (her chosen word for what is traditi...

"Mourant introduces spiritual direction as a vocation, and she invites readers to notice the call, maybe with soul-searching, to this ministry."

Anne Spalding looks at advice on the practice of spiritual direction

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Book review: The Missing Peace: Meditation as a spiritual path to peace, community and oneness by Chris Whittington Spirituality here cries out for engagement, says Lavinia Byrne

"This is a book about turning in, 'coming home to the boundless love which had held us in its embrace from all eternity', and many will find it consoling."

📚 Lavinia Byrne reviews The Missing Peace by Chris Whittington

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Book review: Meeting God in John: A companion for Lent, Holy Week and beyond by David F. Ford Daniel Sandham looks at a book intended to overflow from Lent

"The beauty of this book is how David Ford marries serious scholarship with an infectious passion for a Gospel that enables people to meet God through Jesus."

📖 Daniel Sandham looks at a book intended to overflow from #Lent

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Book review: Dancing to the Heartbeat of God and To Hell’s Mouth and Back by Trystan Owain Hughes THE Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Books have not had much luck lately. Last year’s production was stripped of the former Archbishop’s preface at the last minute and repackaged as a “Big Read”. This year’s book under the aegis of his successor (n...

"We gain a vivid sense of the diversity of the Anglican world, with often moving personal stories."

📚Philip Welsh considers the #Lent books chosen by the Archbishops of #Canterbury and #Wales

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Book review: Wardrobes and Rings: Through Lenten lands with the Inklings by Julia Golding, Malcolm Guite, and Simon Horobin Hugh Wybrew enjoys a Lent book drawing on classic fantasy fiction

"The three authors have charted a refreshingly distinctive way through Lent, one that will certainly appeal to admirers of Lewis, Tolkien, and other Inklings."

📚 Hugh Wybrew enjoys a #Lent book drawing on classic fantasy fiction

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Book review: You’re Only Human: How your limits reflect God’s design and why that’s good news by Kelly M. Kapic Andrew Davison faces the fact that he is finite

"It encourages us to receive our finitude as part of God’s good intention, not seeing it as a flaw or failure."

📚 Andrew Davison reviews 'You’re Only Human: How your limits reflect God’s design and why that’s good news' by Kelly M. Kapic

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Book review: Dappled Beauty: Through Lent with Gerald Manley Hopkins by Carys Walsh Richard Harries reads daily reflections on poems by Hopkins

"For him, the glory of God was not in vague abstractions, but in each unique particular, especially when they did not fit neat categories"

📚 Richard Harries reads daily reflections on poems by #GerardManleyHopkins

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Lent books and courses 2026: Lessons from Wicked, belonging, Christian cost of living, and life lessons Peter McGeary reviews publishers’ Lent offerings

"Variety is the spice of life, so the saying goes, and 2026 brings a nicely diverse set of Lenten volumes to choose from."

Peter McGeary reviews publishers’ #Lent offerings

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Book review: Easter in Disguise: The 2026 Lent Book by Liz Dodd Lyle Dennen on a nun who identifies Christ’s ‘critical spiritualities’

"In this brilliant and challenging course, the author shows in an imaginative way, the power of Christ’s resurrection and teaching, permeating each Sunday’s Lenten reading."

📚Lyle Dennen reviews 'Easter in Disguise: The 2026 #Lent Book' by Liz Dodd @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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Also in the paper:

• #Lentbooks - Read reviews of publishers’ #Lent offerings 📚
• #Faith - Lorraine Cavanagh explores the meaning of forgiveness 🤝
• #Comment - Angela Tilby writes on the end of the Living in Love and Faith (#LLF) process ✍️

Beyond Busyness: Time Wisdom in an Hour The developed world is suffering from an epidemic of major proportions, and the disease at the heart of it is busyness. We are addicted to doing one thing after another with as little down-time as…

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The disease at the heart of modern life is busyness. We are addicted to doing one thing after another with as little down-time as possible. This is a sickness, a spiritual sickness.

Get to grips with Time Wisdom in just an hour.

The Writing on the Wall: Everyday Phrases from the King James Bible The King James Bible is a treasure-trove of idioms and clichés that have entered everyone’s vocabulary. Taking a phrase from each book and exploring its origins and modern usage, Richard Noble gives…

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The King James Bible is a treasure-trove of idioms and clichés that have entered everyone’s vocabulary. Taking a phrase from each book and exploring its origins and modern usage, Richard Noble gives a fascinating glimpse into this “inestimable treasure”.

Following Jesus in the Holy Land: Pathways of Discipleship through Advent and Lent Reflecting on the key locations of Jesus’ life and ministry, this book invites Holy Land visitors and armchair pilgrims to reflect on Christian discipleship through Advent and Lent.

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Reflecting on the key locations of Jesus’ life and ministry, this book invites Holy Land visitors and armchair pilgrims to reflect on Christian discipleship through Advent and Lent.

Preaching the Passion: Interpreting the Evangelists Sermons for Holy Week and Easter, written for a parish congregation, exploring the events of Jesus’ death and resurrection as told by the four Evangelists each with his distinctive perspective and…

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Sermons for Holy Week and Easter, written for a parish congregation, exploring the events of Jesus’ death and resurrection as told by the four Evangelists each with his distinctive perspective and interpretation.

Wicked Weather for Walking: A Passiontide Progress A short guide through Holy Week, linking the story of Jesus' way to the cross with themes of pilgrimage and Christian discipleship in the twenty-first century

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A short guide through Holy Week, linking the story of Jesus' way to the cross with themes of pilgrimage and Christian discipleship in the twenty-first century

Pilgrims: Pathways of Christian Life What is pilgrimage? What does it mean to Christians who undertake pilgrimage? Each chapter of this book focuses on a popular place of pilgrimage within Britain and Ireland, offering historical…

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What is pilgrimage? What does it mean to Christians who undertake pilgrimage? Each chapter of this book focuses on a popular place of pilgrimage, offering historical background and exploring why each has become such a powerful magnet for pilgrims over the ages.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Unearthing and Earthing the Psalms The Psalms are songs of defiance against the odds in which the voice of ordinary worshippers can be heard. This book listens to that voice and relates the Psalms contemporary experience.

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The Psalms are songs of defiance against the odds in which the voice of ordinary worshippers can be heard. This book listens to that voice and relates the Psalms contemporary experience.

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