Product Description

`I smashed the roof of the cave with my axe, and stood up into the blinding glare of a perfect day. I felt watched. Something in the crescent of summits and ridges looked down on me and waited. I stepped from the wreckage of the cave, and started to climb down. I was about to die; I knew it, and they knew it.'

Exploring the Void is a brand new Lent course, based on the internationally-acclaimed film Touching the Void. The book and film tell the gripping true-life tale of two climbers' fight for survival when disaster strikes during an expedition in the Andes.

Using the film as a starting point for discussion, Exploring the Void is a course that appeals to people of all ages. Arranged into five group sessions, it relates themes and issues raised by this gripping story to our own journey through life: Travelling companions; Plateaux and summits; Breaking free; Decision making; Out of the void.

Each session includes extracts from the film, questions for group discussion, personal reflection and worship. The book also includes suggestions and guidelines for course leaders, an introduction and further reading to support the main group sessions.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390207 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Nicholas Calver has been a vicar in Redhill, Surrey, UK for ten years. He and his wife, Judith Calver, have been running Lent courses at their church for several years. This is their first book.

Nicholas Calver has been vicar of St John the Evangelist, Redhill, Surrey since 1997. Judith Calver is an editor and journalist.

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Customer Reviews

BRILLIANT SOURCE FOR DISCUSSION AND THINKING
thought-provoking; accessible; very well put together on a theme that can appeal strongly to men [helpful in planting seeds for a men's group]; plenty of involvement for small groups [not just one person doing it all]; beautiful worship at the end of each session. Warmly recommended, this is a very good, stimulating, and appealing lent book..
The excerpts from the film are gripping: and perfectly suited to the ideas put forward. Definitely the best Lent /Book/Group I have come across in years.