Apprentices and Eyewitnesses, by Chris Thorpe

08 March 2019

CHRIS THORPE’s Apprentices and Eyewitnesses: Creative liturgies for incarnational worship: Lent, Holy Week and Easter (Canterbury Press, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-1-78622-110-0) offers five services for Lent; a Julian-themed Mothering Sunday service; two forms for Stations of the Cross (“traditional” and “biblical”); services for Holy Week, including the last hour at the Cross on Good Friday; and for Easter and Ascension Day. Suggestions for the use of recorded music abound

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