The Festival of All Saints
Ascension
Historian Tom Holland’s travelogue at Luther Tyndale’s Reformation Celebration on Friday night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtRiddwb8s) began with a journey from Soho to Brixton and asked the question, ‘Where are the angels?’. He said he didn’t have the answers. Meandering through history, literature, art, and personal experiences, Holland didn’t give us a ‘Reformation lecture’ per se but a […]
The Festival of The Reformation
Ascension
We’ve called it ‘living in the jet on the runway’ as the dehumidifiers dry out the house after the broken pipe. Yes, they’re loud. We were told that sometimes people turn the ‘daleks’ (my name for them) off when they go to sleep but we’d don’t really hear them upstairs and we’ve sort of migrated […]
The 15th Sunday after Pentecost
Ascension
I knew of Alexander Hamilton but not much else – except in the categories of US history and the Constitution. Because we’ve watched the musical Hamilton and I have the musical currently in the background, I can describe more of his biography but only in broad terms and in terms of some key events. I […]
The 13th Sunday after Pentecost
Ascension
‘Face to face’ used to mean being in the same room, talking to someone directly, seeing them and facing them as they face you. It was a reference to communication that wasn’t by phone, text, email, or letter. This week the ELCE pastors gathered for a meeting to discuss the Church Order document and it […]
The 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Ascension
I enjoy teaching and the classroom and pretty much everything about it – preparations, planning, delivery, engaging with students but there is one thing I don’t enjoy. I do it, of course, professionally, critically, diligently but I find grading hard. I’m not so much talking about reading students’ work or listening to students, getting their […]
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