Protomartyr
Happy 2nd day of Christmastide, Happy Boxing Day, Happy Feast of Stephen the Protomartyr…how many traditions can we cram into one 24 hour period?! Let’s review quickly….it took our early
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The Wisdom of the Forebears
An Episcopalian professor, liturgical scholar and author J. Robert Wright did the American church an invaluable service, re-introducing the Early Church Fathers (yes, a few mothers, but their voices are
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The Greatest of These
There it was, just where I wanted it to be, front and center under the tree on Christmas morning. Dan’el Boone’s coonskin cap, complete with tail. I’m 6 years old
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Love Come Down
Dearest Sisters and Brothers, we have to bid a very consequential and challenging Advent season goodbye, and pass over to the Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ…or
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Lessons & Carols
Mother Emily Lukanich has prepared a special four part video series for celebrating Advent at home and Christmas, as we prepare for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Enjoy!
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Convergence
Well now, this is interesting. As if 2020 didn’t throw us enough, here comes cosmology too! How many times does God have to wave a divine astrometric hand right in
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Knock Knock!
Mother Emily and I agree. We both consider the Collect, or gathering prayer, for the Fourth Sunday of Advent to be one of our favorite prayers of the Christian year.
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Believing Thomas!
Today is how the church disrespects one of her own, and let’s put that right. We considered the Apostle Thomas, hung with moniker “Doubting,” some time ago in the Great
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Make A New (Christmas) Plan, Stan!
This Christmas is different, so much more like that first Christmas of old. Our cherished longstanding traditions are disrupted with pandemic prejudice, but that does not mean Jesus is not
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Magnificent
Today, the Fourth and final Sunday in this too-brief Advent, we finally meet her. The Queen of Heaven, Mother of all, Eternally Virginal, Luke’s first Apostle, Theotokos (literally God-bearer in
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