Bread and Wine
Readings for Lent and Easter
Published on 18. February 2026
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-1-63608-170-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 Baez 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 Hammarskjoeld, Stanley Hauerwas, Jakob Hutter, Ignatius, E. Stanley Jones, Clarence Jordan, Toyohiko Kagawa, Thomas a Kempis, Soren Kierkegaard, Peter Kreeft, Jeong-Saeng Kwon, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, Gerhard Lohfink, Brennan Manning, John Masefield, Juan Mateos, Thomas Merton, Juergen 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.
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 Baez 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 Hammarskjoeld, Stanley Hauerwas, Jakob Hutter, Ignatius, E. Stanley Jones, Clarence Jordan, Toyohiko Kagawa, Thomas a Kempis, Soren Kierkegaard, Peter Kreeft, Jeong-Saeng Kwon, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, Gerhard Lohfink, Brennan Manning, John Masefield, Juan Mateos, Thomas Merton, Juergen 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.
Reviews / Votes
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 TodayPlough 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
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63608-170-0 (9781636081700)
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C. S. Lewis | John Donne | Eberhard Arnold
Bread and Wine
Readings for Lent and Easter (Second Edition)
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01/2026
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11/2014
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