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The title of this book ought to be The Great Little Book of Lent because here are wonderful reflections carefully chosen from Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Reformed writers on the spiritual life. They are linked to scripture readings and prayers for each of the forty days of Lent. Although some of the writers are still alive and some have died, all the reflections are from writers no earlier than the twentieth century. Christians sometimes assume that great spiritual writers are confined to early and medieval centuries. This anthology shows how mistaken that belief is and how lucky we are in our own age to have such profound insights on the Christian faith from a whole range of people who write out of their own deep encounter with God.

Christian spirituality is very much alive in the third millennium and is certainly not something restricted to monastic life. As Desmond Tutu puts it, ‘each one of us is meant to have that space inside where we can hear God’s voice because God is available to all of us’. Some of the authors will be very familiar, some not so. Canon Howells has managed to discover some nuggets of pure gold from a great range of writers who, in a few paragraphs, write clearly and insightfully on Christian living and believing.

Here is an anthology to be savoured and pondered, read and re-read, for the contents provide a helpful immersion into the thinking of those who have had the most profound of things to say about Christian living and dying in this century and the last.

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