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Wild Bright Hope: The Big Church Read Lent Book 2025
This hugely heartening book on hope will galvanise readers into looking at the world and the challenges we're facing in a new way.
It gathers together a fantastic range of lively, up-and-coming writers who are willing to dig deep. Here they write passionately about what gives them hope, in reflections including Seeds of unity, A beautiful and messy awakening, Kingdom diplomacy across faiths, A vision for hope in politics, Wild paths of peace and Hope in suffering.
Wild Bright Hope urges us not only to embrace a more hopeful perspective, but also to consider how we ourselves might play a full part in bringing in the kingdom of God.
It gathers together a fantastic range of lively, up-and-coming writers who are willing to dig deep. Here they write passionately about what gives them hope, in reflections including Seeds of unity, A beautiful and messy awakening, Kingdom diplomacy across faiths, A vision for hope in politics, Wild paths of peace and Hope in suffering.
Wild Bright Hope urges us not only to embrace a more hopeful perspective, but also to consider how we ourselves might play a full part in bringing in the kingdom of God.
184 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 19, 2024
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January 28, 2026
Over a decade ago I moved my spiritual home from the Anglican church to the Pentecostal. At the time I felt that the Anglican church was stuck in a bit of a time warp and it didn't reflect the needs of both myself and our children; I didn't want them thinking that church was out of date and stuffy, it needed to be relevant to them and their lives.
This book has really changed my perspective, showing the many fingers in pies that the church now has and how it is no longer hampered by it's former white, middle class and middle aged image.
The essays within the book can be used for reflection - as the second part of the title indicates - but they are also really uplifting, inspiring and thought-provoking reads within themselves and reflect the diversity of the authors chosen to write them.
My feelings, having now read the book, closely align to the book's title - Wild Bright Hope - in that I think that the church is really looking into all the ways in which it can not only reach out to people, but support and encourage them and with the current revival in the numbers seeking God and attending church, it seems this is working.
An excellent read.
This book has really changed my perspective, showing the many fingers in pies that the church now has and how it is no longer hampered by it's former white, middle class and middle aged image.
The essays within the book can be used for reflection - as the second part of the title indicates - but they are also really uplifting, inspiring and thought-provoking reads within themselves and reflect the diversity of the authors chosen to write them.
My feelings, having now read the book, closely align to the book's title - Wild Bright Hope - in that I think that the church is really looking into all the ways in which it can not only reach out to people, but support and encourage them and with the current revival in the numbers seeking God and attending church, it seems this is working.
An excellent read.
April 15, 2025
The Big Church Read's Lent Book for 2025 is a series of essays by a range of writers on the subject of hope. Some stand out more than others but the book is thought provoking and perfect for reading throughout Lent.
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