Waiting for the Beloved: Advent in the Key of Love By Joseph Mangina News junkie that I am, I confess to indulging in a certain frequency of doomscrolling. I move from one story to another, compiling a catalogue of the many reasons there are to be depressed:... Read More...
This Month Shall Be for You Esther 9:20-10:3 By Jon Jordan A little over a month ago I finished reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It is the first in a now four-book series spanning roughly five centuries and centered on the... Read More...
Advent: Gearing Up For All Twelve Days A former Roman Catholic student preparing to become an Episcopal priest recently asked me why we retain the Twelve Days of Christmas as Anglicans, but Roman Catholics do not. Both Rome and the Episcopal Church have undergone major liturgical reworking because ... Read More...
Bring Back the Catafalque By Leander S. Harding I learned from the great theorist of education Elliot Eisner and his book The Educational Imagination, to look for three curricula in any regimen of education and information: what is t... Read More...
I Want to Be One Too: On All Saints’ Day By Jean McCurdy Meade For all the Saints who from their labors rest. (Hymnal 287) I sing a song of the saints of God (Hymnal 293) O when the saints go marching in (African-American Spiritual) These two hym... Read More...
The Moving Feasts of Christmas and Epiphany By Matthew S. C. Olver The ways of numbering and counting and commemorating the days of the Christmas and Epiphany seasons are enough to leave one’s head spinning. The evidence seems to be that Epiphany on January 6 arose in the East before the celebration ... Read More...
Celebrating Christmas in Advent By Neal Michell I have a confession to make: I have already put up our Christmas tree... and our outdoor lights... and I was singing Christmas carols while doing so. In fact, they were all put up before the ... Read More...
Welcome to Pre-Advent By Stewart Clem No, Target: we do not agree that Christmas begins on November 1. You must be thinking of All Saints’ Day. Christmas begins after first vespers on December 24. People have been complain... Read More...