Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
50 Great Prayers from the Iona Community
Neil Paynter · 2009
78/100
👍 Worth It
The Iona Community has one of the richest living prayer traditions in English-language Christianity, and Neil Paynter has assembled fifty of the most beloved voices — Kathy Galloway, George MacLeod, Kate McIlhagga — into a compact, portable volume suitable for both private reflection and communal worship. The justice-and-peace orientation is distinctly Iona and will not be every evangelical reader's instinct, but for progressive and ecumenical audiences this is a genuine treasure. The follow-up volume being published confirms it found its readership.
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safety90
substance78
craft80
originality72
accuracy82
hype75
age-fit80
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict78
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