Barefoot Ways: Praying Through Advent, Christmas and Beyond - Paperback

by Stephen Cherry (Author)

A sequence of beautifully crafted prayer-meditations for daily reading from Advent through to Candlemas.

By the author of the hugely successful Barefoot Disciple (2010) and Barefoot Prayers (2013) Especially helpful for people with a heavy workload - whether lay or ordained From the Introduction: 'Barefoot Ways offers the reader a poetic, prayerful meditation for every day of December and January.

It connects with the spiritual themes of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany and takes the reader from the first days of a new Christian year to the feast of Candlemas on February 2nd. These three great Christian seasons are divided into thematic areas, each of which is given a brief introduction...'The distance from Advent to Candlemas is considerable, and there are many ways across its fearful and fascinating terrain. I offer here some 'barefoot' ways - by which I mean ways that are both down to earth and yet full of spiritual aspiration and hope...'

Author Biography

Stephen Cherry is Dean of King's College, Cambridge, and was before that a Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral. His previous books include Healing Agony (Continuum 2012) Barefoot Disciple (Continuum 2010) and Barefoot Prayers (SPCK 2013).