Remembering, Thinking, Imagining: Augustine, Anselm, and Rowan
Remembering the past, thinking in the present, and imagining the future all interweave.
Holy Spirit: Remembrancer
Refresh my memory, / With words of Moses and Jesus, / To help me follow your ways / And imagine your future.
8 meditations on Lent
Lent is a voice crying in the wilderness, a finger stabbing in the direction of Golgotha.
Via crucis
Behold my grace through vessel, see my love / in bark-covered-twisted-winter-dead tree.
‘And is it true?’
The Feast of the Nativity — the Church’s celebration of the mystery of the Incarnation — cannot be merely an extension of the good things of “the holiday season” as the secular world keeps it. Christ’s birth cuts at an angle to all the kingdom of this world: all of our bad things, and all of our good things — all of our sad things, and all of our happy things.
Seoul missions conference: Conversions and transformations
Bishop Graham Kings reports on the recent conference of the International Association for Mission Studies, in Seoul.
A catechism of Nature (4): The sea
What can the sea tell her,
That she does not now know, and know how to bear?
She knows, as the sea, that what came will recur,
And detached in that wisdom, is aware
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Praying off-center with W.H. Auden
I may not solve the world’s problems, but I can pray if I am attentive and open to interruptions.