W. H. Vanstone

Darkness Yielding is an imaginative and engaging collection of ready-to-use liturgies, prayers and reflections for the richest seasons of the Christian year - Advent and Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. For all who may be looking for fresh and striking ways of expressing what the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus mean for human life, Darkness Yielding offers: Probing reflections by Rowan Williams and Martyn PercyComplete liturgies by Jim Cotter for a Christmas Eve vigil, a Maundy Thursday footwashing and Last Supper, a Good Friday devotional service, an Easter Eve vigil, and a dawn celebration of the ResurrectionA contemporary set of meditations on the Stations of the Cross and the Seven Words from the Cross from Sylvia SandsA series of seven Good Friday addresses by W H Vanstone

In The Stature of Waiting, W. H. Vanstone - award-winning writer and Canon Emeritus of Chester Cathedral - reflects on the majesty of Jesus as he 'waits' before those who accuse, taunt and crucify him. For us today, such times of passivity and passion are as important as times of action and taking charge.

Nearly forty years after its first publication, Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense remains transforming and compelling. William H. Vanstone explores the nature and cost of authentic love, distinguishing it from destructive imitations, and he reflects on the precarious activity of God in creation.

Experiences of dependence and of waiting are becoming increasingly frequent and widespread in contemporary life and yet we evade, repudiate or resent them. Vanstone's book, a modern classic of the Anglican spiritual tradition, looks at our attitudes to illness, to being out of work, to not 'doing' anything. He draws on the story of the passion in John's Gospel to transform our understanding of these experiences, by presenting Jesus as a figure who, in his waiting, discloses the deepest dimension of the glory of God.