How can we enter fruitfully into the seasons of the Church's year? Why
have the seasons become shaped as they have and what can we do to make
them good?
As Mark Oakley explains in the hugely enjoyable, earthy and wide-ranging
introduction to this exceptional volume, we can experience them in
stimulating company! Here are reflections by the most senior pastors and
teachers in the Church today:
SARAH MULLALLY, Bishop of Crediton, on A Good Advent, a season 'pregnant
with hope', when our waiting is anything but inactive.
ROWAN WILLIAMS, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, on A Good
Christmas, and the overwhelming surprise of 'a God who values our
humanity beyond all imagining'.
LIBBY LANE, Bishop of Stockport, on A Good Epiphany, when through
discomfort 'we begin to discover at first hand the hospitality of God'.
JUSTIN WELBY, Archbishop of Canterbury, on A Good Lent, 'which takes
hold of human sinfulness and, in an extraordinary way, makes space for
the hope of Christ'.
STEPHEN COTTRELL, Bishop of Chelmsford, on A Good Holy Week, when we
'revel in the sensuous and very hands-on re-enactment of liturgical
drama'.
STEPHEN CONWAY, Bishop of Ely, on A Good Easter, which is 'life lived
shot through with grace and glory'.
KAREN GORHAM, Bishop of Sherborne, on A Good Pentecost, when our life's
journey 'brings us encounters, challenges and opportunities we can rise
to, equipped by the Spirit of God'.
