Winter
LIGHT AND DARKNESS
Winter
LIGHT AND DARKNESS
Light and Darkness
December 2024 - February 2025
Like Advent, the season of winter is a season 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 can even be closed off in our own minds, as the dark and cold work their way inward.
But the story doesn’t end there. The limits aren’t just a challenge–they are an opportunity.
The constriction–of time, space, and everything we do with both–gives us a chance to work within it. To create concentrated warmth and cheer. To make rich food and hot drinks. To tell stories. To linger. To see each other more fully, in long conversations by the fire.
This is a poignant picture of the life of the church. We see darkness and cold all around us. But with our redeemed imaginations, we can not only acknowledge these things; we can live in intentional defiance of them, for the life of the world.
In this abbreviated quarter before we launch our first fully planned quarter in March, our content will focus on this theme–the reality of the darkness, but a calendar full of warmth, cheer, and hope that go out in defiance of it.
FOR THIS SEASON
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Advent Articles
Enjoy Articles
(Stay tuned — there is more to come!)
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Imagination Redeemed
(Stay tuned — we relaunch in January!)
Believe to See (Featured)
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Candlelit Sung Compline
Saturday, December 7, 2024
7:00pm – 8:00pm
All Ages Advent Dinner & Short Story Read Aloud
Friday, December 13, 2024
5:30pm – 8:30pm
Narnian Christmas Party
Saturday, December 28, 2024
6:00pm – 9:30pm
The Common Room
Saturday, January 11, 2025
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Midwinter event: Light & Dark Stories & Songs
Saturday January 25, 2025
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Visual Artist Feature
December 2024
ADVENT
December 2024
ADVENT
Readings for Advent
Podcasts for Advent
Artist Feature
Creating from the Darkness: ISAAC hANS, Photographer
This is the little corner where we’ll be highlighting a visual artist that is making work that interacts with what Anselm is discussing at large.
All Ages Advent Dinner & Short Story Read Aloud
Saturday, December 28, 2024
5:00pm – 8:00pm
Narnia Christmas Party
Saturday, December 28, 2024
5:00pm – 8:00pm
January 2025
epiphany
January 2025
epiphany
For Epiphany
Meeting God Anew in Radiant Rome
The wise men first saw Christ on Epiphany, so it was fitting that this was the day she began to see something new. Everywhere she turned that night, the ancient city revealed a feast of light and beauty.
Featured Readings
Featured Content
ANSELM VOICES
Scott Cairns’s “Alone in the Busy”
Award-winning poet Scott Cairns, Guggenheim Fellow and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Using his own poetry and prose, Cairns explores how we can recover communion in the face of isolation.
Peter Leithart’s “Dostoevsky and the Desire for Freedom”
In prison, Dostoevsky discovered that the desire for freedom was the wellspring of human action. But this wellspring comes from a deeper source.
Engage and Embody
How to Organize your own common room
While this January holds our third Common Room gathering, many are unfamiliar with the concept and asked about its foundational principles. In this post, the woman behind the idea shares the why and the how of creating a Common Room to which all are invited — to write, read, sew, paint, sketch, or daydream.
COMING SOON
Imagination Redeemed Podcast -
New Season’s Episodes, Monthly (Starting early january, 2025)
Artist Feature
Creating from the Darkness: ISAAC hANS, Photographer
This is the little corner where we’ll be highlighting a visual artist that is making work that interacts with what Anselm is discussing at large.
Midwinter event: Light & Dark Stories & Songs
Saturday January 25, 2025
Link and details to follow.