Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows Stores are stocking their shelves for the Christmas shopping season and families are setting up Christmas trees and decorating them and stringing their houses and yards with Christmas lights. Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday this year and the real Christmas Season, the Twelve
A Word About Prometheus Some years ago in a book aptly titled Thieves of Fire the great Irish literary critic Denis Donoghue memorably summed up the difference between Aeschylus’s and Shelley’s treatment of the figure of Prometheus: all that all we know about Prometheus comes from Aeschylus, all that we
A new phrase has entered our conversations: Imposter Syndrome. “Imposter syndrome is a behavioral health phenomenon described as self-doubt of intellect, skills, or accomplishments among high-achieving individuals. These individuals cannot internalize their success and subsequently experience pervasive feelings of self-doubt, anxiety, depression, and/or apprehension of being exposed as a fraud in their work, despite verifiable and objective evidence of their successfulness.” (National
The Marks of a Methodist 4: Mission By Thomas Lambrecht We have been examining what it means to be a Methodist in honor of John Wesley’s tract, The Character of a Methodist, but following a modern version of those ideas in Bishop Gerald Kennedy’s 1960 book, The Marks of a
Cultivating a Heart of Generosity: Unpacking the Uncomfortable Topic of Stewardship In this episode of the Sermon Notes podcast, host Jay Strother is joined by special guest Ken Schafer, the Stewardship Minister at Brentwood Baptist Church. They discuss the importance of giving and stewardship in the Christian faith, highlighting the
You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See – 6 Steps to Define and Redesign Your Church Does your current ministry model seem clear? Strategic? Intentional? A clear, strategic, and intentional approach to ministry isn’t unholy. The opposite, in fact. Contributing to the Great Commission doesn’t happen by accident. The more
We Catholics are never more cruel to one another than when we are arguing over our tradition. We know, in some way, even if in a mostly inchoate way, that tradition is our temporal marrow. It is something like the meter for a melody. We know that tradition means Christ
Methodist Heritage: World Methodist Council 1961 Address by Bishop Gerald Kennedy Tenth World Methodist Conference Oslo, Norway August 19, 1961 In the nineteenth century, the English theologian Frederick Dennison Maurice wrote: “I cannot but think that the reformation in our day, which I expect to be more deep and searching than