Defying gravity

CL65 includes a tip-top all-age service for Easter Day - Defying Gravity.

It's splendidly illustrated by Brent Clark. Text and images are a click of a mouse away - but only for subscribers.

Click the e-mail link to the rightto ask for full info on subscriptions.

Helpful comments

An English vicar interviewed on the English-language service of French television with some helpful comments on the recent Archbishop Rowan rumpus.

And here's a link to another thoughtful piece, this time all the way from Somerset.

Do nowt!

That good friend of CL, Steve Tilley has written an excellent commentary on this new-ish book from Bishop Stephen Cottrell.

Click here to find it.

The book is available via Church House Publishing - but if you decide to buy, do please make your local Christian bookshop your first port of call.

Listening process

Published in 2008 by SPCK, this volume is the Anglican Communion's 'official response' to the denomination-wide call for listening and dialogue with regard to homosexuality - and to homosexual people, within and outside the church.

This deliberately mission-focused book 'offers clear and accurate resources intended to help bishops, clergy and lay people...to listen to God and to one another on the subject on the subject of human sexuality...'.

Read more about this timely, authoritative and dispassionate resource here and here.

A blog pause...

CL's editor is heading off for a short late-winter holiday - so no new posts on the blog until the week beginning 18 February.

What better sign-off image than the splendid resource book from the gifted people of Hope08?

It's packed with brilliant ideas - all of them practical and do-able.

www.hope08.com

Christmas greetings...

While most people are thinking about Lent, Holy Week and Easter, here at CL, we're already thinking about Christmas 2008!

In particular we're planning to commission a series of images to accompany a traditional carol service.

But what about the lessons/readings?

We've checked out the famous 'King's College' series of readings (taking in the whole sweep of Bible history) - and two other sets - all featured in Common Worship Times and Seasons. 

Do subscribers have any suggestions? Have you devised a carol service that has been particularly helpful?

It would be great to hear from you!

But, please, there's no need to send boxes of left-over crackers or mince pies....

The image above is part of the series Christmas Pairs from CL64, available online.

Image copyright Brent Clark.

Seale of approval

Subscriber the Rev William Seale gives this book an enthusiastic thumbs-up.

The author has the ability to place the difficult issues of life and faith in their true context. The worldly items and aspirations that we all treasure so much are clearly described for what they really are - temporary and shallow. A thought-provoking book that certainly helps one put things into their true perspective.

When the Game is Over it All Goes Back in the Box
John Ortberg
Zondervan

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