David Russell Mosley Advent Conception of Mary 8 December 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, Today I just wanted to write you a quick note to let you know about a new place you’ll occasionally be able to find me. Some time ago the people over at the Emerging Scholar’s Network Blog decided to start putting together a devotional for Christian scholars called Scholar’s Compass. While there is much that can be learned from... Read more
David Russell Mosley Advent St Andrews 1 December 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, Today is the transferred Feast of St Andrew (transferred from yesterday since yesterday was the first day of Advent, which if you want to see my most recent devotion on Advent check it out here). I was doing Morning Prayer (from Common Worship for those interested) this morning and I got to the Old Testament reading. Now I use the... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Christ the King 23 November 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, I have decided to begin a series of “unspoken sermons”, a title, if not an idea, I have stolen from George MacDonald. In truth, I am still in the process of discerning my vocation. Am I called to be an academic theologian, a theological priest, a poet, an author? I honestly don’t know. However, I know that of... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 19 November 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, Today I venture into the books I didn’t read as a child. I think this is important because I came to many of these books both as a Christian and often as a theologian. This means that what I see in these books is in no way coloured by my childhood experiences of them. So, the first book I want to... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 17 November 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, I just wanted to write you a quick note. A new friend and one of the pastors at the church I currently attend has started a blog. Adam is a seminarian whom I like to kid about being ginger (really I’m just jealous of how much hair he has). His interests, like mine, are varied, but not always so strange as... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 13 November 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, This morning as I was reading through my Facebook feed I came across a link about one of my favourite authors: C. S. Lewis. So many things are written about Lewis daily that I don’t have time to read them all, so most of them I tend to skip. This one, however, caught my eye because of the title: The Shocking... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Pope St Leo the Great 10 11 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, are the last books from my childhood that I will be examining in this Sacramental Imagination series. I hope to turn my attention to a few books I read after my childhood, but which are still children’s books, like J. R. R. Tolkien’s Smith of Wooton Major; George... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 05 11 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, Today I want to continue our discussion of the formation of Sacramental Imagination in children. The world I want to look at today is C. S. Lewis’s Narnia. I thought about how I wanted to do this, and there may come a day soon where I’ll look at each book in turn, but today I want to focus on Narnia... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Richard Hooker 03 11 2014 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, Today I want to continue our conversation about forming a sacramental imagination in children. As I said before, I want to focus on the works the helped form my imagination as a child. The first book on the list, therefore, is J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. I am limiting myself to The Hobbit because attempting a brief overview... Read more
David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time All Saints’ Eve The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear Friends and Family, Today, or more appropriately this evening, is the eve before the feast of All Saints. Tomorrow is an important day in the life of the Church. All Saints’ Day and its twin feast of All Souls’ Day on 2 November are the days set aside when we who remain remember all those who have gone before us. For many Protestants, today... Read more
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