In today’s podcast, Charlie West, shares some information from the church and world calendars and gives us two options for this week’s   challenge. He shares a collect for Christmas and reflects on the Winter solstice, St. Thomas, St. Stephen and more. Here is this week’s challenge:

1) write a “longest night” poem/prayer;

2) if you were going to change your last name to reflect something about you – more than “one who comes from the West” – what would you change it to?

You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com