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Light Upon Light: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany by Sarah Arthur
ddejong's review against another edition
4.0
This was a great collection, but I remain perplexed about how/why these mostly-weekly readings took me deep into Lent. The organization of the book is my main criticism of it. It would have been simpler to have every chapter structured the same way— daily readings of Scripture & daily poetry or prose readings. The variance in number of readings as well as the fact that some full chapters only represented a single day (Christmas Eve, Christmas, Epiphany) caused me to have to spend more time than I wanted to thinking about how to plan the readings appropriately. I was introduced to a lot of great poems and have book darts throughout. I liked the way the chapters had a loose theme as well. I could have done without the prose readings for the most part— just a couple pages of a novel or short story doesn’t do much for me personally. My only other random thought is how did Malcolm Guite not make it in here at all??
debbiecuddy's review against another edition
4.0
This is a nice collection of readings from literature that relate to the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. I especially enjoyed the selections of contemporary poetry.
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