The #Anglican tradition has a daily reading lectionary where you read 4 or so chapters each day and go through the NT 2-3 times in a year, and the OT once (depends on which lectionary you use.)
I've been doing this awhile, and had the habit down, but health made me focus on essentials for a time and I got behind for about a month.
In my catch-up phase, I decided to just treat the epistles as single-sitting readings.
And you know, I'll probably do this more often. There's value in chapter breaks, but honestly: if it's a two-page letter, it shouldn't take five days to read it (I'm looking at you 1 Peter.)
Anyway. Just stating the obvious: the #Bible is full of short stories and letters and small, concrete narratives. You should read them that way. That's how they were meant to be read!
@lentenmass It's amazing when you think that even letters like Corinthians where really just that: one letter that was likely read in one go by the receiving Church.
Yet, in our Church we are just about half way through a series on 1 Corinthians that I don't even remember when we started anymore 😆
(not suggesting there isn't also immense value in detailed study and sermons - but you do get a different perspective when you read large chunks in one go)
@michael Even more: the letters would have been read in one go by many churches! Like the early tradition (before the Gospels were written) was to copy and share these letters around to encourage those of good faith. So an early church service in Ephesus would have had them reading the letter to the Philippians as well (and vice versa). But it would have been all in one go!
I love my tradition, but feel that there's a certain value that we lose by following a weekly lectionary of chopped-up scripture. I may reach out and offer to just read a letter or two. There's a dude I heard on a podcast that has a few books memorized and can just get up and perform them. That sounds like it would be valuable to me!
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