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A Christmas without war: Power and hope at the end of Christmastide

Esau McCaulley
January 5, 2021
ACNA, Commentary, Liturgy
By Esau McCaulley This year there was a noticeable lack of emotion related to the supposed “War on Christmas.” We all know that “war” might be a bit dramatic given that the battlefield includes skirmishes ov... Read More...

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Neil Dhingra
January 4, 2021
Commentary, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Roman Catholic Church
By Neil Dhingra Famously, Dorothy Day once said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” The writer Robert Ellsberg, who had recorded that line, noted that Day did not want to be r... Read More...

Mary’s Little Lion-Lamb

Fr. Clint Wilson
January 3, 2021
Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
By Clint Wilson Mary had a little lamb, His fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go. Perhaps you remember these lyrics to the iconic children’s nursery rhyme called “Mary had a little lamb.” This, of course, is the... Read More...

The Twelve Days of Christmas: Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great

Hannah Matis
January 2, 2021
Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement, The Episcopal Church
By Hannah Matis On Christmas Day, Pixar released on Disney+ another of its gorgeous, bittersweet, complicated creations. In the tradition of Inside Out and Coco, this one is called Soul, and concerns one jun... Read More...

The Blood and the Name

Timothy O'Malley
January 1, 2021
Commentary, Liturgy, Roman Catholic Church
By Timothy P. O’Malley On the eighth day after his birth, before receiving the “name above all names” (Phil. 2:9), Jesus was circumcised. The temptation is to spiritualize this first shedding of blood by ... Read More...

The 2020 Toilet Paper Roll Ornament

Abigail Woolley Cutter
December 31, 2020
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
By Abigail Woolley Cutter When I first saw the toilet paper ornament for sale, I smirked. I immediately thought of the nationwide “toilet paper scare” in March and the scattered shortages in hard-hit areas since then. A nationwide bathroom joke, comic relie... Read More...

Awaiting a Superhero

Emily Hylden
December 30, 2020
Commentary, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
By Emily Hylden On the way to school this past month, my four-year-old told me, sadly and gravely, that there were no real superheroes. His friend at school had told him so, and as a tender-hearted boy who s... Read More...

The Holy Innocents

Bishop Daniel Martins
December 29, 2020
Commentary, Ethics, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
By Daniel Martins The notion of "innocence" has an interesting range of meaning. At a literal and concrete level, it denotes absence of guilt or culpability in relation to a specific act or series of acts. O... Read More...
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