{"product_id":"9780281077038","title":"A Good Year","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Oakley, Mark \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 17\/11\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 144 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780281077038,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eROWAN WILLIAMS, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, on A Good Christmas, and the overwhelming surprise of ‘a God who values our humanity beyond all imagining’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLIBBY LANE, Bishop of Stockport, on A Good Epiphany, when through discomfort ‘we begin to discover at first hand the hospitality of God’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJUSTIN 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTEPHEN COTTRELL, Bishop of Chelmsford, on A Good Holy Week, when we ‘revel in the sensuous and very hands-on re-enactment of liturgical drama’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTEPHEN CONWAY, Bishop of Ely, on A Good Easter, which is ‘life lived shot through with grace and glory’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKAREN 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’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697280122924,"sku":"9780281077038","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780281077038_0c6260d3-7299-4adc-976d-f934beb95db5.jpg?v=1759658826","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780281077038","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}