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July 31, 2018

The Catholic Church Has a Geography Problem: Reflections on the Parish

Ordinary Time 31 July 2018 The Edge of Elfland Concord, New Hampshire Dearest Readers, When...

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June 21, 2017

Sick Pilgrim and Trying to Say “God”: Before the Conference

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 21 June 2017 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire...

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May 23, 2017

Every Savage Can Dance: Catholic Reflections on High and Low Culture

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 23 May 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

May 06, 2017

The Parish as Response to the Benedict Option

One of the reasons I became Catholic is precisely because Catholicism recognizes that physical, material...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Keeping Christianity Strange: Celebrating Rev. Hedges in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Feast of St. Luke The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Reflecting on Food, the Eucharist, and Theology with Angel F. Méndez-Montoya

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 20 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 06, 2016

The Eucharist the Basis of Leisure: Some Reflections on Josef Pieper, Fr. Jacques Hamel, and C. S. Lewis

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 5 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

Folk Liturgy: St. Bartholomew’s Bun Run

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Bartholomew's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 17, 2016

Finding Joy in the Kitchen with the Help of Brother Lawrence

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 17 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 03, 2016

Anglophilia: Bake Off, Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, River Cottage, and the Local Church

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 3 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 01, 2016

The Christian Festival of Lammas: Alison Milbank, Bread, and the Church Year

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Lammas The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Readers,...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

The Church and the Village: The Blessing of the Beer and Other Agricultural Festivals

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 27 July 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Hillbilly Liturgy: Reflections on the Country Bumpkin, the Eucharist, and Thomas Aquinas

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Feast of St. Ethelreda The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

On Food: Growing and Eating and Hobbits

David Russell Mosley Lent 25 February 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

The High and the Low of Christmas

David Russell Mosley Advent 17 December 2015 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

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