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March 2019

March 13, 2019

Brick Making In Lent

This is an interesting piece—basically about how we should, as Christians, be doubling down on...

March 10, 2019

All the Time Management in the World Won’t Make You God

It’s that special day of the year. No, not Christmas. Nor the one set aside...

March 07, 2019

Living Out Lent With Children

We’ve been chattering about Lent for upwards of a week now, over the daily Luncheon...

March 06, 2019

Wash Off The Ashes And You Are Still Made Of Dust

Turns out I need to revise my plans for Lent and give up, on day...

March 05, 2019

Why Should You Eat Pancakes

Some kind but unknowing person wondered aloud to me why we have to eat pancakes...

March 03, 2019

Love Cannot Rejoice With Wrongdoing

Well, here we stand on the threshold of Lent, facing that dark day—Ash Wednesday—when evangelicals...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

Thursday Thoughts

The First Thought Facebook reinstated Faith McDonnell’s account. Which is Fantastic, and thank heaven, and...

February 20, 2019

Facebook Enacts Their Community Standards

Whatever it was I was thinking about yesterday evaporated when I happened on this news,...

February 19, 2019

Camping In A Church

This is interesting, if vaguely depressing. For the world wanderer, collecting interesting places to stay,...

February 17, 2019

Why Would You Want To?

In my ongoing quest to come to the end of the internet, this week I...

February 10, 2019

The Night and the Day are Both Alike

All week Matt kept up a steady stream of bizarre and crazy news articles flowing...

February 04, 2019

Contending For Church Podcast and Links

Good Morning all. We are stumbling into consciousness after rather a long and disappointing evening—the...

February 03, 2019

Before and After

I happened upon a stash of old black and white photographs a few years ago....

January 2019

January 30, 2019

The Self-Control Unicorn

This was an entertaining, if rather old, article. Apparently, self-control is not just elusive, it...

January 29, 2019

Try Opening Your Eyes

Is it already morning? Goodness, that came quickly. Did not intend to fall off the...

January 20, 2019

Don’t Buy a Razor, Go to Church and Drink the Wine

If we were able to go to church this morning, which we might try to...

January 17, 2019

It’s Not a Ladder, It’s a Circle

One website I keep running into, when I’m taking my desultory early morning turn through...

January 14, 2019

Resurrection Feelings Podcast and Links

Good Morning. We have arisen (get it?) and done up a podcast about Anglican Dysfunctionalism—including...

January 13, 2019

How To Be In The Center Of God’s Will

It’s not the usual way that Epiphany itself falls on a Sunday so that the...

January 06, 2019

A Reason To Eat Cake On Epiphany

Today is the Feast of the Epiphany, that auspicious moment when you begin eating those...

January 02, 2019

If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry

On the first day of the new year I read this depressing piece about Gandhi,...

December 2018

December 30, 2018

Come to Church and See a Miracle

In an over-sugared haze I finally read that muddled piece in the Guardian about how...

December 23, 2018

The Washington Post Discovers The Magnificat

[Jesus excited that Americans apparently want to become Christian.] My soul magnifies the Lord, and...

December 20, 2018

We Can Certainly Be Friends

I have, as I said last week, been doggedly pursuing the goal of actually reading...

December 19, 2018

Use ‘Joyance’ in a Sentence

This was a fun and hilarious thread on twitter, only partially ruined midway by a...

December 16, 2018

How Is Your Christmas Coming?

It has come to that alarming moment in Advent where I look at the calendar...

December 14, 2018

7 Reasons To Do A Pageant On Christmas Eve

Thought it would be fun to enumerate seven reasons to kill yourself by doing your...

December 13, 2018

Book Notes: Faith Is Not Blind

On Monday one of my children declared, “I like to spend most of my time...

December 09, 2018

Grief and Hope

This is a beautiful and tragic piece that made the rounds a week or two...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Advent, For Such A Time As This

I think I need to limp out and buy some vitamin D. It is snowing,...