This Advent, a new visitor has come to stay: a baby girl, to be born in April.
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This Advent, a new visitor has come to stay: a baby girl, to be born in April.
** Expecting at Christmas
By Bonnie Nichols Scott
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As I read in Luke that the baby "leaped in the womb" of Elizabeth, I experienced my child’s kicks and “leaps,” a sensation I continue to find indescribable. Read on ([link removed])
** 2022 in Review: The Episcopal Church
By Kirk Petersen
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The pandemic and the 80th General Convention vied for primacy among TLC's headlines. Read on ([link removed])
** 2022 in Review: Anglican Communion
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** By Mark Michael
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Eyes were on England with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and a Lambeth Conference 14 years after the last gathering. Read on ([link removed])
** A Legacy of Kindness at St. John's
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** By Charles Hoffacker
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When my wife and I visited the parish of generations of my forebears, we experienced the sense of welcome that must have drawn them to the church. Read on ([link removed])
** A Test of Faith
By Ben Lima
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Herod the Great’s vain attempt to do away with the threat to his reign by killing all the baby boys in Bethlehem is an unavoidable obstacle to the sentimentalization of Christ’s birth. Read on ([link removed])
** A Christmas Paradox
By Molly Jane Layton
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If at Christmas we celebrate Immanuel, God coming to live on earth with humanity, then there is a whole lot of Christmas in John 1. Read on ([link removed])
** The Incarnation: God’s Great Eucatastrophe
By Neal Michell
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I suppose it is the simplicity of Christmas Day services — a sense of “Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 2:19) kind of simplicity — that touches me so. Read on ([link removed])
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