Janet Morley’s new book, The Heart’s Time, is proving to be one of our most popular Lent titles. Janet has selected a poem a day for Lent and Easter, and her choice includes both familiar and unexpected poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Christina Rossetti and R S Thomas among many others. As Janet explains in her introduction, ‘Lent is the period of the year when Christians set aside time to reflect on their spiritual journey; it is appropriately ‘the heart’s time’ … it is a time of focus and concentration, of stopping to notice what matters most in life.’ Reading poetry, Janet argues, allows us a reflective space in which to slow down. Read on for more of Janet’s introduction and to see which poem she has chosen for Ash Wednesday.

The start of Lent is almost upon us, so now is the time to stock up on some excellent resources for Lent and Easter and save yourself 25%!

Our three books on special offer – A Bit Like Jesus, Passionate Christianity and The Easter Stories – are suitable for personal devotional use and group study. They also offer food for thought for sermons and quiet days during Lent and Easter.

To accompany the recent publication of our children’s Holy Communion guide, Pray, Sing, Worship, Margaret Pritchard Houston, families pastor at St George’s, Campden Hill, London, shares her top tips for welcoming children to communion services.

In the third extract from this workshop, Tom Wright and a group of students from King’s College, London explore issues in translating Mark 4: 35-38.