Good Friday: The axis of the cosmos
Holy Week for Newbies Have you ever wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday? The early church believed Jesus was crucified on March 25th. Further, they believed that, since re-creation...
View ArticleGood Friday: The axis of the cosmos
Holy Week for Newbies Have you ever wondered why an execution is known as, “Good” Friday? The early church believed Jesus was crucified on March 25th. Further, they believed that, since re-creation...
View ArticleThe In Between Day
Holy Saturday Today is the quiet day. In the church historic, the art for today portrays the Harrowing of Hell, Jesus making proclamation to the “spirits in prison” (1 Peter 3:18-22), trampling the...
View ArticleEaster: The Story that Shapes all Stories
Holy Week for Newbies A few years back an international student from China named Peter spent his senior year of high school living with us. Growing up in an atheist country, Peter had no spiritual...
View ArticleKilling it: How overwork leads to underperformance
Have you ever been really tired? As in, barely drag yourself out of bed, wonder how you’ll make it through the day, dog-tired? Have you ever been discouraged, depressed, or anxious? Are you any of...
View ArticleWhat are you waiting for?
No one likes to wait. Remember staring at presents under the Christmas tree? Or arriving famished at your favorite restaurant and the maître d’ tells you 90 minutes? Or standing in line forever at...
View ArticleBelieving Crazy Stuff
Acts 1:1-11, Eph 1:15-23, Luke 24:44-53 (with a shoutout to Matthew 28:16-17) St. Augustine of Hippo said, “If you believe what you like in the gospel and reject what you don’t like, it’s not the...
View ArticleThe True Cross
You probably missed it. It doesn’t show up in most calendars, and it isn’t mentioned newsfeeds – Holy Cross Day was September 14. Here’s the story: Constantine converted to Christianity and sent the...
View ArticleThe Great Tradition
New folk are often struck by how much Anglicans talk about “the tradition.” People sometimes assume we mean, “That’s just how we’ve always done it.” But that is not what we are talking about at all....
View ArticleLent: Tickets to Spring Training
In the early church people preparing for baptism, called catechumens, would spend 40 days fasting, praying, and meeting daily to learn the Christian faith. Eventually, as a show of solidarity, the rest...
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