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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It’s late September and that means that it is now culturally appropriate to embrace my spooky side. Pumpkin spice everything is all well and good, but I love the darkening days and ghost stories and howling chill that delightfully shivers. I imagine a little Edgar Allen Poe sitting on my shoulder, muttering creepy “nevermore’s” into […]
I recently was re-reading excerpts from the best book on preaching. In it, Keller quotes the philosopher Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, in which he says that “no one has a right to interfere with me for my own good, but only to prevent harm to others.” Taylor was summarizing what might be called […]
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