THE CHP booklets Living Hope: A Lent journey: 40 daily reflections (£2.50 (£2.25); 978-1-78140-500-0) by Cathrine Fungai Ngangira, Belle Tindall, and Victoria Mason, and the child’s version, Living Hope: A Lent journey for children (£1.99 (£1.79); 978-1-78140-503-1), are “informed and inspired by” Wild Bright Hope (review here). For adults, there are a daily Bible reading, pictures, reflections, prayers, and practical ideas; for children, a daily challenge to do, learn, or think about something. Adult: pack of ten (£22; 978-1-78140-501-7), pack of 50 (£95; 978-1-78140-502-4); child: pack of ten (£17.50; 978-1-78140-504-8), pack of 50 (£75; 978-1-78140-505-5).
Chris Swift’s book A Sterne Lent: Forty days with the celebrity parson the Church forgot provides daily reflections inspired by the 18th-century author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. But Laurence Sterne was also the author of letters and sermons, a satire on church politics, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Swift, a priest, draws lessons a candid and compassionate priest who could be critical both of his society and himself (Quacks Books, £11.99; 978-1-912728-92-3; phone 01904 635967; email design@quacks.info).
David Steven’s Prizing the Passion: Four Lent talks with selected poems is by a priest who served in South Africa until 1974. The talks, based on a Thomas Traherne poem, were given in St Endellion Collegiate Church, in Cornwall, in 2011 (Firedint, Oxford, £8 from amazon.co.uk; 978-1-9999-407-6-8).