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 It’s especially important at this time of year for Christians to try their very best to show Christian charity towards the season’s Grinches. And by Grinches, I don’t just mean the people who elbow their way in front of you in the stores or cut you off on the Beltway. The Grinches I’m talking about . . . → Read More: The Grinch can’t really steal Christmas  Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXIV No 50  The St. Stephen’s team has done it again—managed another Cookie Walk that seems to get better every year. Under Colby Hawks’ coordination, with help from many others, we had a beautifully decorated hall with plenty of cookies. All the products sold well and we had many bids on the silent auction items. Our Santa Claus . . . → Read More: Cookie Walk Wows ‘Em John the Baptist didn’t write a book—not even a slim one. Indeed, he left no written record of his life and ministry. All we know of him, we know from others. And among the most striking things they tell us about this messenger sent by God to prepare the way of the Messiah is that . . . → Read More: Getting it right the second time around Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXIV No 49  Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the Vicar never looks I nibble through old service books. Lean and alone I spend my days Behind this Church of England baize. I share my dark forgotten room With two oil lamps and half a broom. The cleaner never bothers me So . . . → Read More: The Diary of a Churchmouse The expression “Culture War” seems to be invoked incessantly these days to explain the root of every dispute in spheres as far apart as the Christian religion and Washington politics. Today’s “Culture War,” in fact, has precious little to do with culture. Far from it. Rather, the underlying causes of the conflicts are profound . . . → Read More: False messiahs and the Culture Warriors There’s something a bit odd about organizing a lavish feast to celebrate some mighty achievement and deliberately fail to invite the person who made it all happen. It wouldn’t just be a case of bad manners, it would also be utterly stupid. It would make the celebration completely pointless. Yet that today is exactly the . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving to God for the fruits of the earth Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXIV No 48 Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXIV No 47 |
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