Glimpses of Glory

In the 2017 Mowbray Lent Book, the late David Bryant reflects on his unexpected moments of divine encounter.
Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, David Bryant looks back on his life and writes powerfully about the moments when he unexpectedly encountered God in the most unlikely places: a high security prison; at the bedside of a dying child; in the gift of imagination; or in Bible passages that have been startlingly brought to life in his own experience.
Forty reflections offer a reading a day for Lent, with an explanatory introduction and a concluding Easter meditation. He draws widely on poetry, literature, art, music, and above all human encounter, to trace a divine thread running through a life that has been 'always unpredictable and often surprising'.
David Bryant died shortly after delivering this final book to his publishers.

David Bryant was a priest, and a regular and popular contributor to the Church Times and the Face to Faith section in the Guardian. He died shortly after completing his last book, Glimpses of Glory.

Preface
1 Chaos
2 Ladders
3 Towers
4 Names
5 Tragedy
6 Lust
7 Kindness
8 Suicide
9 Laughter
10 Story-Telling
11 Brutality
12 Holiness
13 Possessions
14 Rebuilding
15 Passion
16 Mercy
17 Loneliness
18 Escape
19 Prison
20 Alienation
21 Imagination
22 Re-routing
23 Guilt
24 Gender
25 Abortion
26 Silence
27 Eternity
28 Agnosticism
29 Transfiguration
30 Peace
31 Prayer
32 Voyaging
33 Cosmology
34 Ethics
35 Fear
36 Process
37 Music
38 Discipline
39 Darkness and Light
40 Resurrection
Acknowledgements
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