This handsome hardback has brief readings from some of the world’s leading literary and spiritual writers, offering just enough meaty and aesthetically-rich writing to please and challenge anyone who wants to dip in to a more mature sourcebook.

Lent is a season of restraint, but this compiled book is a Lenten (and paschal) smorgasbord, offering more than 70 excerpted readings for Lent and Easter. Inside you’ll find writings of spiritual leaders, theologians, literary favorites, mystics, and justice heroes, including Clarence Jordan, Kathleen Norris, Ernesto Cardenal, Simone Weil, Wendell Berry, Madeleine L’Engle, Philip Berrigan, and Oscar Wilde, to name a few.

Carole Vanderhoof highlights Sayers’ thinking on themes like pride, belief, and envy… With bracing wit, Sayers continues to entertain and challenge.

Scholarly and quietly poetic.… Vanderhoof arranges Sayers’ writings in a subtle crescendo, culminating in her commentary on art and Christianity. To an age that views religion – especially Christianity – as irrational and oppressive, Sayers makes a critical case for reassessment.

A very important anthology gleaned from different novels, plays, and other writings of Dorothy L. Sayers with a focus on religious and theological themes. For the person seeking out those themes, one need no longer turn to various books; Ms. Vanderhoof has done that research for us…. The book has an excellent chronology of Sayers’ life, plus a selected bibliography at the back.

Sayers’ detective stories are still bringing great enjoyment—and the uplifting contact with a brilliant and wise mind—to millions; and those who know her apologetic works have the added advantage of her more explicit thoughts on the faith…. Plough is helping revive those works for a new audience, and by tying them to her fiction, showing that the light of Christ shines through them all.

With the growing interest in Sayers studies, this is a timely and helpful volume.

That [Sayers] was a Christian apologist à la C. S. Lewis is made manifest in this generous selection of excerpts from her wide-ranging work…. This multifaceted volume is sure to expand Sayers’ reputation, not only as a writer but also as a thinker.

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 – a sequel to the highly successful 'Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas' – 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!