{"id":3673,"date":"2022-02-22T19:58:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:05:46","slug":"books-i-have-edited-forty-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/books-i-have-edited-forty-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I have edited… Forty Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m a latecomer to Lent. I grew up in a particular Baptist tradition that didn’t\u00a0do<\/em> Lent, and was bemused by it at my nominally Anglican school.<\/p>\n

Since working in Publishing (Starting in 2016) I’ve been exposed to two things: the reality that many, many Christians do ‘do’ Lent, and that it is a prime publishing opportunity.<\/p>\n

I’m delighted to have worked on Ros Clarke’s debut with IVP,\u00a0Forty Women:\u00a0Unseen Women of the Bible from Eden to Easter<\/i>. This is a short, punchy and beautifully written devotional book. It’s not just a Lent book – even though it works well, being forty days worth – and Ros’s own thoughtful theological reflection and honest reading of the Bible mean that I think it is a book that can be used devotionally at any time, and also is a book that anyone (perhaps especially men)\u00a0should<\/strong> read.<\/p>\n

As it says in the blurb, “The first witnesses to the resurrection were not men, but women \u2013 and without women, the Easter story would not have happened at all.”<\/p>\n

That sounds blasphemous.<\/p>\n

But, actually, to say the opposite would be the blasphemy.<\/p>\n

Ros wonderfully shows us how the very human actors in God’s grand drama of redemption are as human as any of us. I’ve been encouraged by the reception of\u00a0Forty Women<\/em> so far, and pray that it will be a blessing to many.<\/p>\n

You can get it direct from IVP here<\/a>, wherever you are in the world, otherwise you can find it on PrayerMate<\/a>, or in good bookshops both off and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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