by Anne Kennedy | Nov 29, 2020 | Advent, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel
I spent the last two days completely avoiding my blank screen, in spite of there being a whole pile of work I intended to do, for the bitter reason that on Friday morning we learned that the last of our—and I do hate this word—“shut-ins” died sometime on...
by Mark Marshall | Nov 21, 2020 | Advent, Church Year, Eschatology, History, Totalitarians
The Sunday Next Before Advent has long been one of my favorite Sundays of the church year. First, the name just sounds amusingly Anglican to me. That may say more about me than about the name, but anyway… Of slightly more importance, it heralds...