Plough Daily Devotionals – Serie

Easter is the high point of the year for millions of Christians around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it.A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual preparation, Lent makes time for daily reading and reflection. This time-tested collection of devotions will deepen and stretch your faith, and can be returned to year after year. Culled from the wealth of twenty centuries, the selections are ecumenical in scope, representing the best classic and contemporary Christian writers.This expanded second edition adds dozens of voices, new and old, and takes the reader all the way through Eastertide to Pentecost.Includes ninety-six Lenten and Easter readings, plus seven chapter-opening poems, by Archbishop Angaelos, Eberhard Arnold, Gonzalo Báez Camargo, Karl Barth, Philip Berrigan, Wendell Berry, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emil Brunner, Oswald Chambers, G. K. Chesterton, Walter J. Ciszek, Clement of Rome, Catherine Doherty, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Donne, Henry Drummond, Dorothy Day, John Dear, Meister Eckhart, Shusaku Endo, Khalil Gibran, Romano Guardini, Malcolm Guite, Dag Hammarskjöld, Stanley Hauerwas, Jakob Hutter, Ignatius, E. Stanley Jones, Clarence Jordan, Toyohiko Kagawa, Thomas à Kempis, Soren Kierkegaard, Peter Kreeft, Jeong-Saeng Kwon, Madeleine L’Engle, C. S. Lewis, Gerhard Lohfink, Brennan Manning, John Masefield, Juan Mateos, Thomas Merton, Jürgen Moltmann, Malcolm Muggeridge, George MacDonald, Martin Luther, Watchman Nee, Kathleen Norris, Henri Nouwen, Julian of Norwich, Blaise Pascal, Christina Rossetti, Fleming Rutledge, Dorothy Sayers, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Edith Stein, John Stott, Sojourner Truth, Barbara Brown Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Therese of Lisieux, Leo Tolstoy, Howard Thurman, Paul Tillich, Tertullian, John Updike, Erik Varden, Tish Harrison Warren, Walter Wangerin, Simone Weil, Oscar Wilde, N. T. Wright, Philip Yancey, William Willimon, and others.