I don’t know if it seems odd to you, but it certainly seems odd to me that after the climax of the story, in which Jesus defeats death and the devil, the story is nowhere near over. The Jews certainly weren’t expecting anything like this; they expected their Messiah to bring in God’s Kingdom, when … More Readings for Week #6
Anyone else out there obsessed with discussing personality tests? In college and in seminary, at least, we would sit around and have endless discussions about our Meyers Briggs letters, our Enneagram numbers, our DISC profile, or whether we were more like a lion, beaver, otter, or golden retriever. I bring this up because, as useful … More Reflections on Week #5
A huge thanks to our writers for this week: Meg, Mike, & Jared poured their hearts into those meditations on Christ for this week. It seems a bit like conversational whiplash to go from their essays more talk about yarn, but I have an update or two that will wait no longer. You haven’t heard … More Mum’s Box of Candies
~by Jared Osborn We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. (Good Friday anthem from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer p. 281) The cross is the most common symbol of Christianity. Many churches use a large cross as a focal point in their … More The Beauty of the Cross
~By Mike Floyd One of the challenging aspects of our modern, scientific, world is the sense that it can tend to be a rather cold, factual and impersonal place. Often times we feel that we can use our intelligence and our evaluative skills to define and order all things. This approach has even found its … More The Holy Mystery of Jesus
~By Meg Saunders “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:16-17). “Now in … More God our Redeemer
This clue had several transposed rows in the written directions – some copy/pasting gone awry. I’ve gone ahead and sent out a new version with all the rows fixed (let me know if you didn’t get it), but all the errata are below if you’ve gotten past the problem points and want to check your … More Errata for Clue #5
The heart. The height. The climax. The center. These are all words we use to describe the most critical point of a story, the part that makes up the heart of a faith. And all of these words can be related to Jesus: His life is the center around which the church year revolves. He … More Readings for Week #5
I love charts. I use them almost exclusively. I have no problem with written directions; I do not think them inferior, nor do I have any negative opinion about knitters who rely on them. Written directions are indispensable for knitters at different levels of chart-reading, so I always provide them. (I also always test-knit them … More Chart-Reading Basics
This Sunday [eta: in Western traditions] is called “Rose Sunday,” though it goes by many other names. It marks the half-way point in our Lenten journey, and is a time to rejoice a little extra on Resurrection Day. It’s a time to take stock of where we are with our disciplines, and maybe relax them … More Reflections on Week #4
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