Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas
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This book is a great collection of short readings for the Christian religious seasons of Advent and Christmas. It begins on November 24 and ends on January 7, the day after the day of Epiphany. Each day features a short reading, poem, or meditation on Advent or Christmas from a great theologian, thinker, poet, or writer.
Some of my favorite pieces are written by Sylvia Plath, Henri Nouwen, Kathleen Norris, Madeleine L'Engle, William Stringfellow, Edith Stein, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Annie Dillard, Martin Luther, St. John Chrysostom, Eberhard Arnold, Søren Kierkegaard, T. S. Eliot, and Jürgen Moltmann.
The book was originally published by Plough Publishing House, the now defunct publishing arm of the Bruderhof Communties, and is now published by Orbis Books.
Give this book as a gift to those friends and family members who want a more meaningful experience of Advent and Christmas than the secular and commercial world(s) can offer.
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Visit the Plough Publishing website. Although they no longer publish physical books, many are still available in electronic formats. They also have links to books that are still in print.
Buy Watch for the Light from Orbis Books.
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*Anthologies
*Literature
*Religion
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