Bread and Wine

Bread and Wine doesn’t fit what most people envision when they think ‘devotional book.’ Here are the voices – ancient and modern, Catholic and Protestant, poetic and prophetic – calling us back to the scandal and the beauty of the gospel on the other side of brokenness and death. It’s searing and unsettling and revitalizing – exactly what we need in a world that has forgotten both sin and grace. —Russell Moore, Christianity Today

Plough Publishing has once again offered a high-quality treasure-trove from Christianity’s classical authors. Bread & Wine … gathers together riches from across the centuries – from the early church fathers to medieval mystics to modern saints, and a number of living authors. It features scholars, mystics, activists and literary giants from the Greek East to the Latin West and represents both Catholic and Protestant voices. This expanded edition warrants its place as a keeper for annual use well beyond the bounds of the Lenten season and Pentecost. —Clarion Journal

Perhaps it is appropriate to ask: Why would anyone even need a collection of Lent and Easter readings? Isn’t it enough to simply continue reading the Bible daily through this season? The answer, the collection suggests, is that in addition to the Bible, our brothers and sisters in Christ span two millennia – a magnificent cloud of witnesses… . Their voices, while not part of holy, inerrant, and infallible Scripture, have much to offer to us in encouraging our spirits and souls to flourish as true “Easter people.” —Mere Orthodoxy

Acclaim for the first edition:

Has there ever been a more hard-hitting, beautifully written, theologically inclusive anthology of writings for Lent and Easter? It’s doubtful. Many readers may well find that this collection is the one book they return to year after year, forgoing their usual custom of buying a new Lenten devotional each spring… Caveat lector: no one should have this much pleasure during Lent! —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Lent is a season of restraint, but this compiled book is a Lenten and paschal smorgasbord. —Sojourners