My Lent book for 2010 is called Giving it Up. It’s a book of 47 short chapters, so you can read one every day through Lent. This is the theme: most people associate Lent with giving something up – like beer or coffee or chocolate. But if you really want to understand and know what the whole “God” thing is about, there is something much more important that you have to give up – it’s your existing concept of God, all the ideas about God that you’ve accumulated, often unconsciously, from all over the place.

People in the Bible had to do it (like Moses, for instance). All kinds of early Christians had to do it (like Gregory of Nyssa, St Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, for instance). Various characters in the history of the Church have recorded how they had to give up the idea of the God they didn’t believe in in order to become a believer. These and others feature in the book, along with some other Lent challenges, Bible stories and contemporary reflections.

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