New for December 2019

Advent may have only just begun but here at SPCK the month of December sees the publication of a great array of titles for Lent 2020. If you're keen to start your Lenten preparations early make sure to look out for these books as the month goes on. 

1. Saying Yes to Life: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2020
By Ruth Valerio

Saying Yes to Life lifts our focus from natural, everyday concerns to issues that are having an impact on millions of lives around the world. As people made in the image of God, we are entrusted to look after what he has created: to share in God’s joy and ingenuity in making a difference for good. 

2. The Grace-filled Wilderness: A Journey Through Lent
By Magdalen Smith

The Grace-filled Wilderness connects contemporary encounters of wilderness with the traditional themes of Lent and Jesus’ journey to the cross.

3. The Glory of the Cross: A Journey through Holy Week and Easter
By Cardinal Vincent Nichols




Cardinal Vincent Nichols invites you to join him on a journey through the world-changing events of Holy Week and Easter, as he reflects on their eternal significance for all believers.

4. The New Testament for Everyone
By Tom Wright

The text of the New Testament, drawn from the New Testament for Everyone series, fully integrated to smooth joins between sections and provide a level of internal consistency, for example in how individual Greek terms are rendered.

5. The Way of Benedict: Eight Blessings for Lent
By Laurentia Johns OSB

In this deep and practical book, a guide for Lent and the rest of the year, Sr Laurentia distils the sixth-century Rule of St Benedict as a series of blessings. Closely based on Scripture, the Rule highlights that the whole of life has a Lenten character and points to a joyful eternity.