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Cole Hartin

The Rev. Dr. Cole Hartin is an associate rector of Christ Church in Tyler, Texas, where he lives with his wife and four sons.

Religious Tourism in Scotland

We ambled up the cobbled Royal Mile to the drone of bagpipes and the laughter of tourists. A light rain — what the Scots...

Children, Hope, and Our Declining Churches

This review discusses suicide. P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men, describes an unnerving world in which humanity suddenly and collectively loses the ability...

No Regrets After Leaving Social Media

About a year ago, I wrote about my decision to leave behind social media. I can say that the decision has been unequivocally positive....

Advent with the Beasts

The Rev. Dr. Cole Hartin reviews All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings.

A Relatable Rendition of Religious Life

The Rev. Dr. Cole Hartin reviews Shelterbelts.

Theses on the North American Anglican Schism

By Cole Hartin This past January, my family and I moved from the cool fog of New Brunswick, Canada, to the balmy pines of East...

To Set Our Sights on the Cross

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

On Leaving Social Media

By Cole Hartin I did not expect that pastoral ministry would require me to spend so much time with a computer. I anticipated using Word to...

Lenten and Lent-Adjacent

Richard J. Foster’s Learning Humility: A Year of Searching for a Vanishing Virtue is a bit of a puzzle. As a meditation on humility,...

A Northern Nativity

By Cole Hartin William Kurelek (1927-77) was a Canadian artist and author who spent much of the second half of his anguished life grappling with...