Fall 2025
Fall 2025
REDEEMING THE TIME
sEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER, 2025
“In celebrating this feast we declare that evil and death, suffering and loss, sorrow and tears, will not have the final word.” -Douglas McKelvey, “Liturgy for Feasting with Friends,” from Every Moment Holy, Vol. 1.
In the autumn, the trees turn golden in preparation for emptiness. The air gets crisp–ready to be cold. The light begins to fade into gray. Crops that have been growing all year are harvested before they die. And many of us already begin to feel wistfulness for the life that is disappearing before our eyes.
But of course, before the chill gray truly moves in, there are fall glories: apple picking, favorite films, harvest festivals and celebrations, annual culinary favorites, and yes, pumpkin spice lattes. A harvest feast takes things that are dying and, in a way, marks them for eternity–in the form of unforgettable flavors and memories. In fact, in the waning days of the long green season before Advent, the Church has long celebrated Allhallowtide, three days of feasting that connect our gratitude for the past with our hope for the future.
The world around us is quick to dismiss the past. And we Christians have sometimes been too quick to join our neighbors in writing things off that “don’t last.” But autumn is an opportunity to do something different: to recognize that our timeless God works in things that appear to be fleeting, and to consecrate the moment for eternity. We do this when we cook for a feast. When we sing and laugh in the face of darkness. When we give thanks for the saints of the past. When we find new ways to repurpose old things. And when we learn, bit by bit, to live each moment like it is part of a larger story.
In this season, we will focus on the idea of the harvest feast (drawing inspiration from Allhallowtide), and the creative and hopeful art of marking the dying for resurrection.
For the Season:
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Imagination Redeemed
Death will not have the Final Word - Oct. 1
Believe to See
Coming soon
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Team Breakfast
Saturday, September 13, 2025
9:00am – 10:30amA Long Expected Feast
September 19-20, 2025
Weekend Event
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Artist Feature
Musician Feature
September
September
Feasting
We were meant for life together. But the fallen world seeks to drive apart things that were meant to be together. People from God. Sexes and generations and tribes and individuals from each other. And the image of God from the rest of the creation.
But what if every meal—every actual meal you'll eat today—is meant to be a small echo of the greatest feast that is to come? And what if there is a way for God to not only heal our relationship with food, but through it, heal the world? What if feasting was a way we participate in the reconciliation of all things?
Featured Articles
Imagination Redeemed Podcast
In every episode, we retell one of the great stories, then follow its illumination to delve deeper into conversation about how to enter into the life of the Christian imagination.
Why we feast
Food features prominently in so many of our favorite stories—like Lord of the Rings, Wingfeather, Redwall, and Harry Potter. Why?
In this episode, we'll delve into these fantastical realms to find a healed relationship with food—and reveal how eating can literally change how we do Christianity.
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Feast on More!
Podcast episodes on feasting and food
Anselm Voices
Lanier Ivester’s Rivendell and Christian Hospitality
In a world of haste and homesickness, we’re all longing for Rivendell: a place of love and belonging, healing and beauty. This Imagination Redeemed 2018 Conference session explores the creative potential of domestic spaces to image our ‘at-homeness’ in God, and cast a vision for hospitality as both art form and act of worship.
Diana Glyer’s Intellectual Hospitality for the Arts
What do those ideas have in common? They are hard, and we try to do them alone. But to really thrive, we need people in our lives who encourage us and challenge us, who keep the faith when we lose heart, and who provide the skills, resources, and perspectives we lack. But there’s an art to cultivating that kind of relationship—and it’s one we can learn.
Book Features
September Cover Photo by Damir K
MUSIC Feature
coming soon: our
fall PLAYLIST
on Spotify! →
Artist Feature
Gatherings
Team Breakfast
Saturday, September 13, 2025
9:00am – 10:30am
A Long Expected Feast
September 19-20, 2025
Weekend Event
Winter
coming soon
Winter
coming soon
GOD IN THE FLESH
The season of winter can be full of darkness, cold, and waiting. Winter creates limits: the days are shorter, we’re stuck inside, and the sun itself (or at least its warmth) is elusive. Often we even can be closed off in our own minds, as the dark and cold work their way inward. We are made keenly aware of our longing for restoration.
But the story doesn’t end there. The limits aren’t just a challenge—they are an opportunity.
It is into the midst of our world's limitations that the God of the universe slips after months of darkness in a womb. God is not afraid of constriction. Beginning on that one unique dark night, He instead works within time and space, and offers us an invitation to participate with him.
We embody godly generosity and joviality as a community full of hope precisely in the space and time allotted to us—not in one grand gesture but in the habitual creation of concentrated warmth and cheer. In making rich food and hot drinks. In telling stories. In lingering, as we see each other more fully, in long conversations by the fire.
This is a poignant picture of the life of the Church. While we see darkness and cold all around us, with our redeemed imaginations, we can live in intentional defiance of them, as God in the flesh did.
Our winter content will focus on this theme—the reality of God in the flesh (and what that means!), with a calendar full of warmth, cheer, and hope because our Lord is found with us in our limitations.
Publishing with the Anselm Society
Winter Submissions due October 7th