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Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Merry Michaelmas

Angels don't often figure into our theologies of work, but perhaps they should.

Practicing Resurrection, or The Witness of a Small Plate of Vegetables

Ashley Woodiwiss | 3 min read

Practicing the resurrection? Lord, I believe. Help Thou my unbelief. A snapshot: Some years back, a former student of mine, who was then working in the State Department, sent a photo to me. It was a black and white, of a priest with arms opened wide, his chasuble (why do I see it in my...

Culture • Popular Culture

Charlie Peacock and His Muses

Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read

Even Charlie Peacock needs a muse, the artist’s artist that he is. But what is it, a muse? How is it different than that other strangely similar word, amuse? The difference makes a difference. The one is an old word from the 14th-century, meaning “to dream, to ponder,” or as a noun, “an inspiring goddess...

Vocation • Finding Your Vocation

Seeing Seamlessly– On Kate Harris and Her New Book

Dr. Steven Garber | 2 min read

Someone’s instincts go a long way– at least it seems that way to me. I remember sitting with Kate Fowler Harris in a Thai restaurant in Falls Church more than ten years ago, and listening to what she was thinking, and the way she was thinking. “Seamless” was the word that best captured what I...

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