Where it all began

My first memories of anything religious are of a Lutheran church. My sister, eleven years older than I, had been confirmed at a Missouri Synod church in the neighborhood with the entertaining name of Martini Lutheran. She was still a church-goer when I was five or six and she was sixteen or seventeen, [...]

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We shall see him (and ourselves) as he is

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that [...]

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A holy day

Holy is the True Light, and passing wonderful,
lending radiance to them that endured in the heat of the conflict,
from Christ they inherit a home of unfading splendour,
wherein they rejoice with gladness evermore.
Alleluia!
from the Salisbury Diurnal by GH Palmer

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Well, duh

I consider myself a fairly sophisticated if amateur thinker on theological/religious issues. My gentle readers all know that I have tried and practiced multiple paths of the spirit, sometimes more than one at a time. But I *just* figured out something so obvious that once it hit me, it was like Homer Simpson suddenly attaining [...]

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Light in darkness, Word made flesh: A Druid’s Christmas

Family obligations have loomed large over the past week, as I suspect is true for many of my readers. Whether you call it Christmas, Yule, or Alban Arthuan, the celebration of the Winter Solstice is a kind of cosmic vortex in our culture; it even sucks in basically unrelated holy days like Hanukkah and [...]

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