Tim Dowley 
Nowell! A Christmas Miscellany [PDF ebook] 
Sublime Words, Terrible Jokes, and Strange Facts for the Festive Season

Nowell! A Christmas Miscellany offers a rich mix of Christmas-themed poetry and prose, extending from classic seasonal poetry to terrible jokes; from carols to journal entries and letters; from much-loved Christmas traditions to favorite Christmas films, music, and paintings. The book is catholic in its breadth, including sermons of the early church as well as twenty-first century verse and items from many nations and a broad spectrum of churches. For ease of use, the anthology is arranged by category and equipped with user-friendly indexes. This book is designed for personal enjoyment and meditation, but it can also be a useful worship resource, providing much-loved as well as new and unusual readings for seasonal events and festivities.

关于作者

Tim Dowley is a London-based historian, author, and poet. His much-praised Handbook to the History of Christianity has been continuously in print since 1977. His most recent books include Defying the Holocaust; Christian Music: A Global History; and Johann Sebastian Bach: An Illustrated Biography.