Challenged by his own teenage children’s growing disinterest in prayer and spirituality, Philip Newell set out to find some cringe-free guide to family devotions. All that he could find was obviously written for the ideal Christian family with totally compliant offspring.
His response was to create his own devotions that, with sensitivity and imagination, engage with the realities of family life and provide both starting points for reflection and deeper nourishment for authentic Christian living in today’s world.