Retrospective
Whew! That’s a big push since Halloween, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas Eve, Christmas, Christmastide and now, the Eve of the Epiphany. A contested and elongated national election, a
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He Did It All and Infinitely More
We cannot leave Christmastide without a word about literary Christmases! Every year the hallowed books come out: Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree, a Little House Christmas, the Grinch, a Charlie Brown
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Let’s Collect Some Collects!
Not so much commentary today dear readers, on this (rare) Second Sunday After Christmas Day, but more praying. We have but a brief Christmastide in which to fit so much
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A Deeper Christmas Dive
WARNING: TODAY’S CHRISTMAS DEVOTIONAL CONTAINS ITEMS OF AN UNBELIEVABLE GEEKY THEOLOGICAL NATURE. PROCEED AT GREAT RISK TO YOUR SOCIAL STANDING AND COMFY CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS…. Break out the fruitcake, chocolate,
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Above All Names
A sincerely Happy New Calendar Year dear readers! May 2021 truly be a different Year of our Lord! Lost in all the revelry (or perhaps a slightly later morning for
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Smiles, Everyone, Smiles!
(Extra 1970’s cultural bonus points if anyone remembers where the title phrase comes from!) Well, Saint Francis of Assisi, revered Christ-figure of the medieval church, your turn to take us
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O Come Silent Night
We visit today with two beloved Christmas hymns. Anglican holiday hymnody is an embarrassment of treasures, and we have only 12 Days of Christmastide after all, so please use these
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Past as Prologue
Okeey dokey smokey, after a three day run of grand slamming saints’ days, can we please get back to some good ol’ Christmas joy now?! How ‘bout reverting to that
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The Holiest of Innocents
Today is a hard day, perhaps the most challenging of any saint’s day on the entire Christian calendar. Most clergy simply never mention it nor acknowledge it due to it’s
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Fourth
Andrew, Nicholas, Lucy, the Baptizer, Mary, Thomas, Stephen…our list of hagiography (fancy vocab for saintly biography) for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany is power-packed and star-studded. Today is no different! At least one and
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