Tag: beauty
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Fourth Sunday in Advent
It is almost Christmas – Jesus’s birthday, as we tell the pre-schoolers in the Sunday school class after fellowship time. We are all excited for Christmas. And we have two new students today, who have come with relatives … another one of the gifts of Christmas. The story today is that Mary and Joseph couldn’t…
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The Darkest Evening of the Year
Tonight, on this longest (“darkest”) evening of the year, my thoughts turn once again to … Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Since I heard one of my professors tell this story, I have always experienced a twinge of embarrassed hesitation to admit this. Here’s the story: A friend of mine took a class…
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The Good Kind of Envy?
Taylor, Barbara Brown. Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others. HarperCollins, 2019. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] I read an excerpt from Holy Envy in the Christian Century and thought “I’d like to read that book,” even though I didn’t agree with Barbara Brown Taylor about original sin. A couple of…
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning I learned how to use the new copier to make large print bulletins on 11×17 paper from regular print bulletins on 11×14 paper, printed on both sides, not two pages on top of each other, facing the same direction and not with one of the pages upside down. As anticipated, it was more…
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A Daily Beauty in His Life
This beautiful prose from Dorothy Sayers appeared in my email this morning thanks to Plough’s “Daily Dig” for March 5, 2019: He assaulted indignant tradesmen and threw them and their belongings out of the Temple; He drove a coach-and-horses through a number of sacrosanct and hoary regulations; He cured diseases by any means that came…
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“Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown”
The music for this song was in the last week’s bulletin I found a few months ago when I was waiting in someone else’s narthex for a meeting to start. I found it again a few minutes ago when I was cleaning off my desk (it’s still “the beginning of the year,” sort of). Thought…
Matters of Interpretation 