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A Beautiful Year: 52 Meditations on Faith, Wisdom, and Perseverance

A Beautiful Year: 52 Meditations on Faith, Wisdom, and Perseverance

Hardcover

Metaphysical GeneralChristian LivingSelf-Help

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1250409888
ISBN13: 9781250409881
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.47
Language: English

One of America's most trusted theologians offers spiritual inspiration for every week of the year

WINNER OF THE 2026 WILBUR AWARD

A Beautiful Year: 52 Meditations on Faith, Wisdom, and Perseverance offers an essay for every week in the seasons of the Christian year: From Advent and Christmas to Lent and Easter through the entire calendar.

Other than its major holidays, many people are not familiar with the rhythms of the church year, an ancient spiritual cycle of time. Yet all religions have such calendars -- and they shape our understanding of faith. In the West, we live in tension with the secular calendar (mostly an inheritance from the Roman Empire) and the Christian liturgical calendar, a cycle of sacred stories that compose a larger narrative of love, hospitality, mercy, justice, and gratitude. Bass reclaims and presents fresh perspectives for every biblical text in the church year; from musing on A Wrinkle in Time in Advent, to remembering her father's old-fashioned blue Christmas decorations, and offering a revolutionary reading of the Last Supper.

With fresh insights on familiar stories, these essays surprise and inspire, challenge and comfort, and will be savored year after year. Beautifully designed, the book is also a perfect gift.

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