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As a Christmas gift to our readers, here is a reflection for Christmas Eve from Barbara Brown Taylor. Barbara was recently voted one of the world’s top ten contemporary spiritual sages. Her work has been praised by Annie Dillard and Lucy Winkett, among others. This extract is taken from Home by Another Way: Biblical meditations through the Christian year.

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Advent Sunday approaches and with it the start of the new Church year. Now is the time to stock up on lectionary resources to help inform your preaching and teaching in the year ahead.

We have 20% off all three volumes of Gazing on the Gospels by Judith Dimond. Judith is a poet and a Companion of the Society of St Francis. Her lectionary reflections are inspired by the advice of St Clare of Assisi to ‘Gaze on him …Consider him … Contemplate him … As you desire to imitate him’.

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Read on to be inspired by Judith’s reflections for the first two Sundays of Advent.