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May 2016

May 08, 2016

The Value of a Life

It is impossible not to notice, as a body labors through the Pentateuch, how fussy...

May 03, 2016

The Discipline of Eating Bread

Mondays have turned into Matt slewing flour here and there in a sort of a...

May 01, 2016

When God Ruins Your #Safespace

I didn't say, because I'm a tiny bit paranoid, that we were away for a...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Death in Easter

Easter, in the Anglican way, lasts for seven weeks--longer than Lent, longer than you think...

April 24, 2016

The Marshmallow Test and Eternity

The Christian Life, when lived properly, should feel like one long, afflictive Marshmallow Test. Surely...

April 18, 2016

Faith Without Works and Works Without Faith

I have a whole category on this blog called Work and the Christian. If you...

April 17, 2016

A Salt Encrusted Selfie

Not to return too bitterly into the past, but I fell off the glorious upward...

April 10, 2016

A Bowl of Bread and a Grave: I Try to Understand the Resurrection

I had a bit of a meltdown yesterday, post funeral. Before I carry on about...

April 03, 2016

Sunday Reflection: He Gives to his Beloved

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating...

March 2016

March 27, 2016

An Easter Reflection

The beginning of the book of Isaiah is pretty dismal. Isaiah spends one verse introducing...

March 26, 2016

Holy Saturday on the Jesus Links

I have got to run off and buy flowers and then Clean All the Things...

March 25, 2016

The Cheerful Offender

My pending box is as full of ugly comments as my house is full of...

March 20, 2016

Palm Sunday Reflection: Miracle by Miracle

In Lent, Morning Prayer begins with "If we say we have no sin, we deceive...

March 18, 2016

My Neighbor, My Enemy

I've been struggling (remember, Christian word for failure) with rage this week, not over politics...

March 13, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Only God Can Save the Daylight

I'm going to go ahead and be bitter, even though it's the Lord's Day. Want...

March 06, 2016

Sunday Reflection: I Cannot Possibly Lose My Life

I managed, in listening to the bible on the Internet, to fall asleep and remain...

March 03, 2016

Not Alone~A Book About Miscarriage and Infertility

Many moons ago I was given the chance to read a new book called Not...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Then Shall I be Satisfied

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall...

February 21, 2016

Sunday Reflection: An Idolator Color Codes Her Pencils

Sunday morning confession: I keep getting sucked into those Facebook quizzes which I'm sure are...

February 17, 2016

Exiled for the Gospel

From my talk at BU IV: I have been given to understand that this semester...

February 14, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Ancient Israel and Modern America

And the word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, eat your bread...

February 11, 2016

What Does the Holy Spirit Do?

So I guess I inadvertently came out as a cessationist last week. Everyone has to...

February 10, 2016

Ashes for Glory

I posted Sunday evening on Facebook that Matt had preached "the best sermon ever", which...

February 07, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Discernment for the Undiscerning

I'm well into the book of Jeremiah, being constantly shocked awake by the practically rhythmic...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Living Water in Lent

Lent will soon be upon us and already I have been quietly fretting over the...

January 26, 2016

Daleiden Indicted, PP Comfortable, God Still God

I made the mistake of clicking on Facebook last night as I was thinking about...

January 24, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Here a Little, There a Little

I was woken from the stupor of sleep by these familiar and mocking words of...

January 17, 2016

Sunday Reflection: God Spoke and Someone Heard Him

I very piously and dutifully spent the entire day at church, yesterday, laboriously gluing bits...

January 14, 2016

Canterbury Hope: A Spiritual Commentary

A little dusting of snow during the night has rendered a fresh clean view from...

January 10, 2016

Sunday Reflection: God the Artist Engineer

I oscillate between very systematic, strictly in order readings through the bible, and then meandering...