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Hope, like a candle in a window,
can draw travelers out of the
dark into the light of Christ.
The story goes like this. A
woman got brave and started a
book club. How did it turn out?
(You can read all about it here.)
Christina Brown on the poet’s—
and our—cathedral-shaped
journey toward union with God.
Painting as a Pastime by the
great Churchill: really? Yes,
and Queen Mum loved her
Drinkypoo (recipe included)
Everywhere she turned that
night, the ancient city revealed
a feast of light and beauty.
Gianna Soderstrom
muses on the ministry of second
breakfasts -- and the power of
inviting others into our homes.
Creating alongside others for half a day is a sweet hint of
heaven. Elisa Lambert shows
us how to make it happen.
Read a review on Ted Hughes’s Poetry in the Making and pair it with a Breakfast Martini (recipe included).
Read a review on Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life and pair it with a High Tide (recipe included).
Read a review on Neil Postman’s Amusing ourselves to Death and pair it with a comfort collins (recipe included).
You’re too busy, too tired, and too distracted. But that doesn’t need to be the end of the story.
Read a review on Robert Farrar Capon’s The Supper of the Lamb and pair it with a Sweet Martini (recipe included).
Read a review on Francis Schaeffer’s Art and the Bible nd pair it with a homemade hot cocoa (recipe included)!
What to read? What to sip while reading? Annie Nardone answers both questions in this piece on how to pair books and beverages.
Read a review on Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water and pair it with a proper pot of tea (recipe included)!
A threefold theology of how to fix our relationship with material reality.
Paintings, sculptures, and murals once pointed to godliness, says scholar John Skillen. Could it happen again?
By sacrificing his life, what can the “Boy Who Lived” teach us about mastering death?
For creative Christians, art
embodies worship. But how
do they make that work
when life blocks creativity?
All earthly Christmases
disappoint us, but hiver,
the Eve of Everything,
can sweeten the bitterness
of winter with fresh hope.
Everything changed when
Matthew realized Jesus
still loved him.
How Tolkien asks us to wrestle with our own natures and short-sighted preferences of justice.
How is heaven is working like leaven through our imaginations to heal reality?
“I didn’t just want examples, I wanted explanations.”
Clay Clarkson's thoughts on
50 years of song-making as
a sacramental act of hope