“Advent 1955”

By |2023-12-10T14:32:25-06:00December 9th, 2023|Categories: Advent, Christmas, Poetry, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

The Advent wind begins to stir With sea-like sounds in our Scotch fir, It's dark at breakfast, dark at tea, And in between we only see Clouds hurrying across the sky And rain-wet roads the wind blows dry And branches bending to the gale Against great skies all silver pale The world seems travelling into [...]

Whatever Happened to Saint Nicholas?

By |2023-12-05T19:48:16-06:00December 5th, 2023|Categories: Advent, Christianity, Christmas, Dwight Longenecker, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

Let us remember this day in Advent as a reminder of the true spirit of Saint Nicholas—a valiant defender of the faith, a tender-hearted lover of the poor and a kindly, generous soul, who saw that the true message of Christ’s nativity was that unless you become like a little child, you cannot enter the [...]

Reimagining Race: Ferguson in the Shadow of Advent

By |2014-12-03T00:49:09-06:00December 3rd, 2014|Categories: Christianity|Tags: , |

On August 9th, 2014, an eighteen-year-old unarmed black man was shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Almost immediately, a firestorm of protest and civil unrest ensued, demanding a federal investigation of the Ferguson police department and its history of violence against black men. When the [...]

Autumn Enchantments: Celebrating the Sturdy Shoulders of Two Literary Giants

By |2023-12-13T20:21:20-06:00December 16th, 2013|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Russell Kirk|Tags: |

Russell Kirk and C.S. Lewis are two literary giants of the 20th century who share that quintessential ‘giant’ quality: They help us to better see. Now that Thanksgiving is over and Advent is upon us, the last of the leaves are falling from the trees here in Scotland and the hours of daylight are dwindling. [...]

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