pickThis is a great devotional for the 40 days from Advent through Epiphany. The daily readings and prayers are very helpful for focusing on the coming of Christ. This also helped to remember the hope we have in Christ's second Advent. I also feel I learned a lot more about church history through this journey. Sometimes modern Evangelicals shy away from terms like "liturgy" and even "Advent" and "Epiphany," quite possibly to our detriment.
Delighted to recieve my #Jolabokaflod parcel yesterday!
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Penguin Book of Carols edited by Ian Bradley
📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics) - I collect editions of Tess and this is my 29th
Started reading this yesterday
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I MISS YOU GUYS. Finally been able to carve out some reading time in the chaos of working two jobs and raising a rascal toddler and it feels so good. My current read is tagged and I've attached a picture of my little reader as tax. #raisingreaders
pickThis is the second book of poetry I‘ve read by Malcolm Guite—I discovered his poetry in 2020, through a series of sonnets he wrote on the Psalms, which spoke to me so deeply during that time. This collection is likewise full of well-crafted sonnets, these corresponding to the liturgical calendar. There is a series for the Stations of the Cross and one for Advent that were particularly meaningful to me. I‘ll be going back to these again and again.
Now to the gate of my Jerusalem,
The seething holy city of my heart,
The Saviour comes. But will I welcome him?
…Jesus, come
Break my resistance and make me your home.
(Listen to this sonnet read by the poet here: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/palm-sunday-a-sonnet-8/)
pickThis book is amazing. A very interesting way to think about what‘s at stake in liturgy and the urgency of ritual experimentation.
Excerpt from Marge Piercy's "The Art of Blessing the Day"
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