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Barbara White

Barbara White serves as Associate Rector for Worship, Formation, and Communications at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lord Harries on George Herbert in Advent

Lord Harries draws attention to George Herbert’s awareness of his sinfulness, and rightly points out that this is something modern people, including many modern Christians, would like to avoid thinking about.

Holding to Christ

Wounded I Sing From Advent to Christmas with George Herbert By Richard Harries SPCK, 144 pages, $14.99 Each year around Michaelmas I begin building my Advent/Christmas to-do list,...

Loving the Bible, Part 2: Teaching Others to Love Scripture

Editor’s Note: This is the second of two essays on loving scripture. The first is here. Because I did not receive good biblical formation as...

Loving the Bible, Part 1: Learning to Love Scripture

If I may paraphrase Mark Twain: Suppose you grew up in a mainline Protestant church in the United States near the close of the...

Kids Don’t Get Anything Out of Church

And You Don’t Have to Either I have had the privilege of worshiping and serving in several churches that are truly multigenerational. In each parish, the...

Christmas With Our Mother

Last Christmas I was 10 days postpartum with my first child. Most of my memories of that time are lost in a sleep-deprived blur,...

Quality of Love

When I became pregnant, I learned that veteran parents talk to parents-to-be almost exclusively in clichés: “Sleep while you can”; “Your life is about...