My Light and My Salvation

In uninterrupted flow from the third-century Phos hilaron (John Keble’s “Hail, Gladdening Light”; “Joyous Light of Glory” in Lutheran Evening Prayer) and even from the New Testament itself, Christians have composed poetry about their Lord, His work, His Church, and their relationship to Him and to each other. Lutheran in its origin, this collection of sacred verse aims to be both oecumenical and evangelistic in its scope. A native of Ottawa and a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston and Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Catharines, Kurt E. Reinhardt has served since AD 1999 as pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kurtzville, near Listowel, Ontario.