I have a [new] favorite Christmas tradition: reading through Dickens’s A Christmas Carol on a chilly winter evening with mulled wine and dear friends. This was our second year to be invited to this reading, thanks to the Tallon family, and it was the highlight of my Advent season. Dickens has a way of making the … More Why I Want to be Like Scrooge
I hope no reader will suppose that “mere” Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions–as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism or Greek Orthodoxy or anything else. It is more like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms…It is in … More Celebrating in Community
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s finally here! A new year, a fresh start. This past Sunday was the first day of Advent, which is the first day of the liturgical calendar. And I find it more refreshing to celebrate Advent as my new year then the actual New Year: It marks the beginning of a story … More Suggested Advent Readings
