Father Thomas McKenzie died on Monday, August 23rd, along with his 22-year-old daughter. They were just out of Nashville, headed southwest with an aim to stay the night in Shamrock, TX when they collided with a tractor-trailer. The finality and the suddenness of it hit me deeply. I remembered that when I was struggling in […]
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A Little Magic Now and Then is Relished By the Wisest Men My brother-and-sister-in-law recently got me into on N.D. Wilson’s podcast. If you’ve ever read his non-fiction, you know that he’s something of a Christian Platonist. He sees (rightly) that the grass in your backyard or the crumbling brick buildings downtown are imbued with […]
The “Bright Sadness” of Lent A Commination In older versions of the Book of Common Prayer, there’s a section called “a commination.” It has a rather weighty variant subtitle: or denouncing of God’s anger and judgments against sinners with certain prayers to be used on the first day of Lent, and at other times, as […]
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