This approachable Lent course invites us to view sin as something to be understood, rather than condemned. It argues that our darker traits must be coaxed into the light in order to manage them and work towards healing and renewal. An intriguing choice for both personal and group reflection.

Rosy Fairhurst

Cover page

Title page

Imprint

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Author’s note

Week 1: God’s pharmacy

Week 2: Seeing squint?

Week 3: Binding and loosing

Week 4: Institutional sin

Week 5: Darkness into light

Week 6: Seeing in the dark

Week 7: ‘Let him easter in us’

Notes

A short Lent book seeing sin not as something to be condemned, but as something to be understood, i.e. a diagnosis which leads to the strong medicine of salvation. Includes questions for group or individual reflection.

'Here's a book to help us get to grips with some of the more challenging things we may hear from God through Scripture today. Rosy Fairhurst's imaginative and engaging commentary on familiar passages will both surprise and inspire.' John Sentamu, Archbishop of York

Rosy Fairhurst is a priest at St Martin-in-the-Fields and an organizational analyst working for the Grubb Institute Guild in London. After training for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, she worked in parishes in Hackney and Islington before becoming Director of Mission and Ministry at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She has also worked as a journalist and a teacher.

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This is a Lent book, so receiving it just before Lent began was good timing. It is divided into 7 weeks, each of which has a theme, with 2 chapters each week exploring this theme. The chapters begin with a passage or two of scripture. In the first week, Fairhurst makes the good point that the context of sin is our relationship with God and tells us, on the basis of the story of the bronze serpent in Numbers 21, to look at what harms us in order to be healed. In week 2, she talks about abuse within the Church and its cover up. Although not a women's book specifically, some of what is said is of more relevance to women. In week 3, she speaks of "...the constant human tendency… to make heroes and villains, but to keep from recognising that they belong within the same human being…", a point we would do well to bear in mind. I was a bit taken aback, however, to read that "even Jesus had to experience the joy of being wrong". Fairhurst also sees some connection between Jesus casting out a demon called Legion and massacres by Roman legions in that region, something which is certainly not explicit in the text itself. But that aside, there is certainly food for thought here.

Uncovering Sin

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This approachable Lent course invites us to view sin as something to be understood, rather than condemned. It argues that our darker traits must be coaxed into the light in order to manage them and work towards healing and renewal. An intriguing choice for both personal and group reflection.

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