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Read The Whole Text

Sometimes reading a classic text in its entirety rather than in excerpt is the best, perhaps only way of really appreciating it.

Learning to Read and Write

What does it mean to read and write? What does it take to digest ideas from the written page, and likewise to express our own ideas in the same form?

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...

Travelogue

This summer, through the generosity of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, I was able to take a long-planned sabbatical. It had been nine years...

Summer Reading

By Cole Hartin I am taking my summer vacation late this year. My hope, when planning this, was that our province would be facing fewer COVID-19...

My Pandemic Reading List: Recommendations from a Contemplative

After COVID-19 changed our world last spring, I initially thought not much would change in my life, either. As a contemplative, I believed that...

Books: Forgotten Friends

By Ephraim Radner When I worked in Burundi in the early 1980s, my house stood across the road from the local school. One day, a...

The Priest as Generalist

By Cole Hartin One of my fears as a pastor is to have my preaching considered “too academic.” I know there is a place for...

What we’re reading: Lent

A few Lent book suggestions from authors at Covenant.

Don’t be Trumped: Some little ways to deal with a big problem

Instead of fretting over the present global catastrophe, read old books, and live in your neighborhood, doing whatever else you can, according to the ability God has given you.

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