Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday, September 20, 2026, is the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Tuesday, September 22, is the Autumn Equinox and the first day of Fall. It is also Hobbit Day, a holiday declared by the American Tolkien Society in 1978 and observed by fans of
Among the many problems associated with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence lies an existential one: the problem of how we conceive ourselves as human subjects, as agents of human intelligence in some kind of similarity to artificial intelligence, and yet dissimilarity to its artificial status. It is this existential
A year after joining The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an adult convert, I was called to serve as first counselor in our ward bishopric. I had a testimony of the gospel, but I was still learning how the Church functioned. I was also learning a vocabulary
A Name for Being Alive, But… By Stephen Rankin A group of people in the church I serve is reading through the Bible in a year. In the New Testament section of the schedule we’re following, we’ve made it to Revelation. We recently read through those letters to the seven
No parent wakes up planning to parent passively. But between exhaustion, busy schedules, and everything vying for our attention, it’s easy to default to whatever keeps the peace. In this episode of The Purposeful Family Podcast, Linc and Elizabeth talk honestly about the pull toward comfort and ease, and what
Why Your Church’s Front Door Is Bigger Than You Think The Rainers discuss big opportunities to make the front door bigger and more effective. Five Things Churches Keep Doing That No Longer Work Jess and Thom review five areas where churches keep repeating mistakes. As Pope Leo prepares to visit
Among the first Christian apologists to respond to the phenomenon of the Mithras cult are Justin Martyr (ca. 100–165) and Tertullian (ca. 155–220). What most impressed these authors were the apparent similarities between their most hallowed religious rites and those of a cult that they considered idolatrous. How was such
I am not a liturgical scholar, nor, happily, have I ever really participated in the “liturgy wars,” at least not publicly. However, I was still transfixed by the controversy that blew up on the morning of the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes (TC), five years ago (16 July 2021). I penned