I’m delighted to share that a new book in The Church Is Open series is now available: The Church Is Open: Holy Week & Easter.

As an independent writer, I publish my work directly through Lulu to ensure each book is produced with care, without rushing or compromising the quiet, attentive tone that shapes this series. This also means the book is only available through Lulu, allowing readers to support the work directly and sustainably.

This volume gathers together two previously separate manuscripts—two journeys, two endings, two epilogues—into one continuous path through the most tender days of the Christian year. What begins with cloaks laid down on the road moves through shadows, silence, and vigil fire, before arriving at the soft astonishment of Easter morning. It is not a book of spectacle but of presence: the priest who kneels, the organist who rests, the child who draws stars on tombs, the dialysis patient who arrives early simply to breathe.

Like the earlier books in the series, this one leans into the quiet courage of ordinary parish life. It honours the people who show up, the stories that unfold in the edges of liturgy, and the grace that rises—slowly, unevenly, but faithfully—when the world grows dark. Holy Week and Easter cannot truly be separated, and bringing these two manuscripts together felt like the most honest way to tell that truth.

If you’ve followed The Church Is Open from the beginning, I hope this new volume feels like a deepening of the journey. If you’re joining the series for the first time, welcome. There is room here for stillness, for tenderness, and for the kind of hope that arrives quietly, like dawn.

The church is still open. Even now. Especially now.

Where to buy

Like all of my books, it is available from lulu.com. The Church is Open: Holy Week & Easter.