These reflections on the Common Worship readings for each Sunday are taken from Jane Williams' weekly Church Times column. Each passage provides a starting point for thinking about the lectionary readings and drawing connections between them. The focus of the writing is spirituality, drawing out different perspectives on the texts from Tom Wright with his biblical criticism slant.

Jane Williams knows a thing or two hundred about being married to a bishop - and an archbishop. She also knows many other bishops' wives and an Episcopal husband or two. In this absorbing book, she pulls together the experiences of a unique band of diverse individuals whose common bond is an attachment to the higher echelons of the Anglican Communion. Bishop's spouses discuss their lives openly; many for the first time. There are glimpses of struggles with bureaucracy, with feelings of powerlessness in the face of major upheavals, and of frustration at the difficulties of balancing duty,...