The Art of Public Prayer (2nd Edition): Not for Clergy Only by Lawrence A. Hoffman

3.08 AVERAGE

ericj's review against another edition

3.25
informative reflective fast-paced
There's a part late in the book where Larry talks about the spaces in which people congregate. He writes (emphasis mine):

An award-winning television program set in Victorian England was called Upstairs, Downstairs, a spatial metaphor for the class structure of the era being portrayed. The servants lived upstairs; those they served lived downstairs. The butler, however, was allowed to roam freely downstairs, because he was a bridge figure: a servant, to be sure, but in charge of all the other servants and a trusted confidant of the master and his family.

Since he, nor his editors, correctly established that servants live downstairs, not upstairs - information that simply has to almost nearly be common knowledge! - how can I trust him about anything else he wrote?

I can't, but the book was otherwise informative (if at all factual), I guess...

For that reason, 3.25 stars.