Surpassing Human Understanding
So, let’s do our thing here dear readers ‘cause I want to know some more about honey! Pure honey, which begs me to ask if anyone would dare to market “slightly compromised honey’ after all?!
Truth to Power and to Us
Truth to Power and to Us We are reflecting together in this brief, intense Advent season on the poignant Advent Sunday Collects. So constitutive, so incisive, so formative for our spiritual (and not so spiritual for that matter) walk though Advent. The Collects...
Wait For It….
Wait for it… Undergirding our weekly Sunday Advent themes are several implicit, transcendent Christian cornerstone experiences. In Advent, as God’s future comes graciously towards us and into view, we are called, literally, to wait. To receive God’s gifting on...
Infamy
Infamy As we move into this second week of Advent, we pause for what has become a civic version of a saint’s day. Sadly, like so many of our national days, this day marks a tragic and traumatic 80th anniversary. In the early morning of Sunday, December 7th, 1941,...
Holy Saint Nicholas’ Day ___Man!
Today is the second of our significant holiday Saints Day’s, the Feast of Saint Nicholas of Myra. Nicholas is an early church rock star in the Orthodox Christian tradition…
Writhe That Wreath!
Writhe that Wreath So it turns out that one of the oldest, most well attested and most globally evidenced holiday traditions involves that wreath on the table, wall or door. Ancient Greeks made them from bay and cherry laurel leaves to award Olympiad victors in the...
Give Us Grace
Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility;…
Ficus Carica
Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Ficus Carica?! Closely aligned with the Great Themes of Advent are multiple symbols of the season, each conveying some profound and often comedic axiom about our faith…
Advent Theme : Hope
The Great Theme of Advent Week One : Hope. Each week in Advent is characterized by a grand biblical theme emblematic of God’s gracious attention to us. As we light the first candle of Advent each day this week, we reflect together on Hope.
