Weaving a Stronger Spell

ABM’s new study app for the Season of Creation.

We are proud and excited to release a new study app just in time for the 2025 Season of Creation (Sep 1st – Oct 4th).

Weaving a Stronger Spell is written by Celia Kemp, author of ‘Into the Desert’, ‘A Voice in the Wilderness’ and creator of our previous study apps, ‘Into the Desert’, ‘Deep Calls to Deep’ and ‘Songs from a Strange Land’.

This new study app is grounded in place, begs us to ‘be’ where our feet are planted, and to see what is actually happening to the world. It is asking us to do the unthinkably difficult, to recognise the rising tide of environmental harm, and to accept our place in the renewal of all things.

Having left the desert and found herself by an urban river, Celia Kemp’s new study app, Weaving a Stronger Spell*, is as complex and beautiful as the source from which it draws life and context.

It meanders and rushes, twists and turns, breaking off into distributaries of wonder, being fed by tributaries of both meaning and matter.

Scripture and theology, harsh and compassionate, are woven into this river of thought and prayer. Celia has never been afraid to rattle the cages of the spiritually complacent, nor has she been afraid of walking in the shoes of the marginalised. But not for her own sake – for the sake of those to whom God would reach to and include. Hers is a prophetic voice, unusual and vivid in the rigid, risk-averse and polite conformity of Australian Christianity.

Whether you dip your toes or plunge right in, you will be challenged and, possibly, changed by your encounter with this content. Celia’s voice rings true, and she includes the voices of many others who share a concern that we are letting things slide perilously close to the deathly.

If you take your faith seriously and care for the future of the planet, Weaving a Stronger Spell will wrap you in its currents and allow you to see things from ground level.

We encourage you to get more than your feet wet.

* The name of the app, Weaving a Stronger Spell, comes from a C.S. Lewis quote:

“Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them. And you and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness which has been laid upon us for nearly a hundred years.”

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory