An Uncommon Lectionary: A Companion to Common Lectionaries

Rating:
Summary: An Uncommon Lectionary is thrilling!
Review: An Uncommon Lectionary is thrilling! Just to have such a thing available to the Church is astounding and magnificent; it breaks habit, must stir hearts and minds, bring light into spirits and joy into worship in a new, fresh, entrancing way. I am stunned at how much work the editor must have done to produce this volume, and at the breadth and depth of creativity and imagination that went into his choices. As a writer of bits and pieces that never find coherence, I am awed at his acuity, his arrangements, his perceptive and imaginative placement of texts, and not least his commentaries and questions.

This is really wonderful work that I believe will inspire the Church from now forward, as great a contribution, we trust, as the original Prayer Book and Lectionary. This is a glorious use of scholarship. I altogether hope that this book will change the sense of Church we have, and that it will deepen and broaden the content of prayer. Hallelujah!

Rating:
Summary: An Uncommon Lectionary is thrilling!
Review: An Uncommon Lectionary is thrilling! Just to have such a thing available to the Church is astounding and magnificent; it breaks habit, must stir hearts and minds, bring light into spirits and joy into worship in a new, fresh, entrancing way. I am stunned at how much work the editor must have done to produce this volume, and at the breadth and depth of creativity and imagination that went into his choices. As a writer of bits and pieces that never find coherence, I am awed at his acuity, his arrangements, his perceptive and imaginative placement of texts, and not least his commentaries and questions.

This is really wonderful work that I believe will inspire the Church from now forward, as great a contribution, we trust, as the original Prayer Book and Lectionary. This is a glorious use of scholarship. I altogether hope that this book will change the sense of Church we have, and that it will deepen and broaden the content of prayer. Hallelujah!