1517 Blogcast

The way through loneliness will lie in the blessing of solitude and the care of God.

Sometimes the peace that passes understanding is pretty hard to understand.   

When all seems hopeless and lost, God is doing his great and gracious work, often hidden from our eyes.

Advent is not a call to prepare to engage in a transaction with God.

 The well-meaning advice “time heals all wounds” is offensively false when we confront the overwhelming evidence that the constants in our lives are death, taxes, and suffering.

His feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.

During Advent, leading up to Christmas, we tend to jump to the end of the story.

It turns out the family trait of not being able to wait runs deep and wide in the family of God. We do foolish things while we wait for promises to be fulfilled.  

The proclamation of Christ's coming is for all people, at all times

On this day in the year 1093, Anselm was consecrated as the archbishop of Canterbury.