Lent 2017 Book Study: Dethroning Mammon- Making Money Serve Grace

Over the course of lent, we are offering a few ways in which to engage the deeper questions of life and faith. The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book which will form a book study to begin to ask ourselves about our relationships with wealth and power.

From the publishers website on the book "in his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called Mammon in this book. Who will be on the throne of our lives? Who will direct our actions and attitudes? Is it Jesus Christ, who brings truth, hope and freedom? Or is it Mammon, so attractive, so clear, but leading us into paths that tangle, trip and deceive?

Archbishop Justin explores the tensions that arise in a society dominated by Mammon's modern aliases, economics and finance, and by the pressures of our culture to conform to Mammon's expectations. Following the Gospels towards Easter, this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values and priorities of our civilisation and in our own existence. In Dethroning Mammon, Archbishop Justin challenges us to use Lent as a time of learning to trust in the abundance and grace of God." 

Please speak with our Vicar Alex for more information and to get signed up for the discussions. The book is avilable from major retailers in both printed and E-version.