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April 2019

April 05, 2019

7 Takes On A Bad Sermon

It’s another gray Friday in Binghamton. The only antidote must be some takes about a...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

The Stranger, Christ

The Sundays in Lent don’t really count as Lent, which is a good thing because,...

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...

February 2019

February 03, 2019

Before and After

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

January 2019

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 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 10, 2019

My Definitive Guide To Surviving The First Work Week After A Major Holiday

This is very important, particularly since I didn’t, how shall I put it, wake up...

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...

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 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 10, 2018

Everything You Love Is Wrong Podcast and Links

Merry Christmas, obviously. Our gift to you is a long and thorough podcasting attack on...

December 09, 2018

Grief and Hope

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

December 06, 2018

What Happens When I Stay Up Late

Ah well, child, if you stay up till midnight and then see me bashing around...

December 02, 2018

What Are You Waiting For?

Stumbled on this depressing piece somewhere or other on twitter. It begins this way, If...

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,...

November 18, 2018

Behind Every Inflatable Santa is a Person with a Soul

The children and I noticed a day or two ago, as we drove somewhere or...

May 2018

May 27, 2018

The Love of God on Trinity Sunday

Every day is a good day for heresy in the Church, but Trinity Sunday, of...

April 2018

April 16, 2018

Dinosaur Easter Podcast and Links

[I don't have a dinosaur, so here is a tiny dragon.] Having failed to get...

April 15, 2018

God’s Love Is Not Ridiculous

For the last few years we have ruined our post Easter joy, being gluttons for...

April 05, 2018

Death is Bad

It is Easter week, of course, and so I should be wrapped up in a...

April 04, 2018

Just A Trifle

Don't worry. Didn't die. Did fall asleep for a couple of days, and probably will...

April 01, 2018

A Garden, a Furnace, a Tomb

There you are, bound tightly up in your various garments. Your cloak, your tunic, your...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

7 Ways to Know the Resurrection is Real

It is Good Friday, and the sky is gray and cloudy, spitting rain--the suitable backdrop...