Columns // The Pilgrim's Year0
Finally, we come to the last and longest season of the Christian Calendar year called Ordinarytime, which spans from the end of Eastertide to the beginning of Advent. Ordinarytime is the season to attend to the holiness of our daily…Read More→
Columns // The Pilgrim's Year0
More than once I’ve been referred to as a modern-day troubadour. I’ve always liked this designation because it has a romantic, archaic ring to it that sounds just a little bit more intriguing than mere singer/songwriter. But it once occurred to me that I wasn’t…Read More→
Columns // The Pilgrim's Year1
The waning of the liturgical sequence of Advent / Christmas / Epiphany, and at the waxing of the Lent / Holy Week / Easter sequence are two great continents of the spiritual globe that cycle through the centuries, year after…Read More→
Columns // The Pilgrim's Year1
“Our spiritual lives are pure maternity, of which human maternity is a signpost.” I recently wrote these words to a young friend who, with her husband, is grieving the possibility they may never have their own natural children. I was…Read More→
Stories // Columns // The Pilgrim's Year0
It may seem unlikely that someone like myself, brought up in pragmatic Prairie evangelicalism, would be writing about the spiritual tradition of the Church calendar year. But truth be told, it is a tradition that has profoundly shaped my Christian…Read More→