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The God who leads us on
Church Times
The God Who Leads Us On is a collection of her homilies on a great variety of biblical texts, which are used as the basis of an imaginative retelling of a familiar story in an unfamiliar way, or from a different perspective. ...these may be read by individuals, or else used as the basis for discussion: each section concludes with points for prayer or questions for reflection.
There is a wealth of material in the book — certainly too much for one Lent — and so some judicious selecting will be necessary if it is to be used for a Lent group. This is not just a book for Lent, however.
It will, I hope, throw the preacher (and the listener) back on to apparently familiar texts anew.
The God who leads us on
Parish News
If you've ever wondered why people talk about Bible 'stories' when the stories themselves
are often so unsatisfyingly fragmentary and undeveloped as human narratives, you
may fall on this lovely book which takes a Bible snapshot or story and builds a little
novella or radio play round their experience. The voices are modern voices, as all
our imagining must be — but in that way, we can begin to connect with the timeless
human emotions and dilemmas felt by, say, Sarah, or Jeremiah, Peter or Bartimaeus.
And these are modern stories too, unlike 'Bible stories', in that they have a psychological
resolution. The real resolution, though, is intended to be drawn out through the
thought-
If used for Lent, though it need not be, it could be used powerfully in a group, with a gifted reader, although the group (unless it meets daily) would have to choose a few stories to focus on, because there are 40 of them. Otherwise, I can imagine these might be a daily delight, like a daily listening in to The Archers, and could make Lent into a fascinating, stretching, biblical exploration of people both like and very unlike ourselves.
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