Have a blessed Ash Wednesday.
Have a blessed Ash Wednesday.
I love the traditional Collect for Ash Wednesday : Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging
Among Christians who observe Lent, the conventional wisdom today is that we shouldn’t just give up things. Rather, we should do something positive, a program of good deeds to boost our moral and spiritual lives. I disagree. I think we should give up things. Speaking
To mark Ash Wednesday, consider T. S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, which he wrote upon his conversion to Christianity and his baptism. The whole poem, linked above, is very much worth reading, despite its difficulty. But here is a magnificent excerpt on the
The Second Article of the Creed from THE SMALL CATECHISM is a fitting meditation for Ash Wednesday: THE SECOND ARTICLE I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit; born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius
The last few days we’ve been having some occasionally contentious discussion about where marriage fits in with the church and the state. I had started to worry that if even Christians don’t know what marriage is, how it is constituted, and how it is governed,
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Luther’s THE SMALL CATECHISM divides the Apostle’s Creed into three articles, one for each Person of the Trinity. Here is Luther’s explanation of what it means that God the Father is our Creator: THE FIRST ARTICLE I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of
That sad, messed-up nation of Zimbabwe, whose unemployment rate is 94%, finally legalized purchases in foreign currency, thus killing the Zimbabwean Dollar: Officially, Zimbabwe’s monthly inflation is an unfathomable 231 million percent. Economists scoff at that figure as far too minute. In November, the last
Christopher Bryans raises a good question for Christian teachers of all stripes: How do you view Biblical integration and how would it take place in the history classroom (beyond the typical moralizing or use of out of context scripture that I have observed)? What resources
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