Reading Roundup | 1.3.21 | Christmastide 2

In which I roundup a portion of my reading from the last week (or so)… That's right friends, Christmastide is a season, not just a day. It goes for 12 days (sound familiar) from December 25 - January 5. This week's links continue the theme of the Incarnation from last week. There is admittedly, more …

Reading Roundup | 12.27.20 | Christmastide 1

Mary Comforts Eve This is a prayer I wrote for those who mourn during the holidays... O God of searching love, our Lord who feels compassion for the faint hearted, You who have come near to us; search us now in the midst of our loss, keep us now in your triune love as we mourn …

Reading Roundup | 12.6.20 | Advent II: Peace

In which I roundup a portion of my reading from the last week (or so)... We wait in dependent hope for the peace and reign of Jesus the Liberating King 1517 | A reflection on the voice crying in the wilderness in Mark 1:1-8... “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of …

Reading Roundup | 11.8.20

In which I roundup a portion of my reading from the last week (or so). One of the three or four folks who take the time to look at these asks when I will have more of my own essays up, rather than just linking to other people's thoughts. This person would like to have …

Reading Roundup | 18 Oct 2020

J. Todd Billings: Good News: Tomorrow We Die … or there's no reason we have to wait until Lent to contemplate our mortality: A graveyard in North Berwick, Scotland - a great place to contemplate one's mortality Every one of us will eventually be struck down by death, a wound that no medicine can heal. …

On Lament, (Almost) Losing Faith, and the Limits of Meaning-Making

The Scream - Image Credit: The British Museum In my recent post, Laments as Love Songs, I noted that my wife, Christie, and I have lost three babies to miscarriage - Jordan Taylor, Micah Jayden, and Noah Avery. Each loss carries with it a dual liturgy of lament composed of the loss dates and the …