So we’ve been a little blog-light here lately, because it’s that time of year. You know, that magical time when the Osborns *always* find themselves finishing the school year AND preparing for sheep and wool AND looking for a new place to live. That time. But we are ready. We are so set. I’ve got … More Submissions
In Anglican calendars and what not, this past week was what we call “the week of the first Sunday after Easter.” I have a certain fondness for descriptivist nomenclature, though it gets a bit clunky. Monday after the first Sunday after Easter: D&D is always celebratory. Friends, drinks, interactive fiction, and general ridiculousness abound. If … More Celebration Report: Week #2
There are some knitters for whom their craft is a tiny compartment of perfection. In an otherwise slap-dash, rushed, incomplete, messy life, knitting is something they can always keep trying until they get it right. If there is even a suggestion that a piece they are working on is wrong, or they lose count, or … More To Rip or Not to Rip?
So now that it’s Easter season, I finally feel released to start some shameless and passionate advertising for the: Pentecost Shawl Mystery Knit-Along! Mystery Knit-Alongs are more or less the most fun thing ever. The way it works is that you sign up to knit a pattern that sounds interesting, but that no one has … More Swatchfest 2012
Sunday seems like an appropriate day to reflect on this seasonal discipline, so here we go: Thursday in Easter Week: Go down to the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary with roommate A to do some epic research for my thesis proposal. Take a bunch of pretty pictures, then realize I don’t have my memory card in. Kick … More Celebration Report: Week 1
To all my brothers and sisters of the East: Happy Easter! Christos Anesti! Χριστός Ανέστη! Христос воскрес! This Lent, Holy Week, and Easter have been a particularly cruciform journey for me. It seems fitting then – almost too fitting to sully with words – that the second Easter pattern is a baby blanket, designed after … More Behind the Design: Carolingian Cross
So most people know that Lent is about self-discipline. Giving things up and fasting are the most well known disciplines, but there are others like silence and confession. Stuff like this is called “disciplines of abstinence,” for obvious reasons. You’re not doing things, either because you shouldn’t be doing them, or because taking a break … More 50 Days of Celebration
There was Vigil, a baptism, and Easter morning, packed to the hilt, dressed to the nines, and singing ourselves hoarse. At home we had an unexpected party with leg of lamb and roast beef on the menu, and a leisurely evening of hanging out with dear friends. I stayed up and got up too late … More A Smattering of Easter
Lilies are the Easter flower. Easter Lilies are particularly so because of their pure whiteness and distinctly trumpet-like shape. Loud and reckless without being garish, vulnerable and precious without being weak. They rejoice without fear, to celebrate the day of the year that we are to celebrate the most with unmitigated joy. When Jesus rose … More Behind the Design: Lilies for Easter
Today is my birthday, and I am wearing black. You’ve probably noticed this already, but I tend to like to think about suffering. I do not feel strange or maudlin about this, because I think most American Christians don’t think about it enough. In fact, I’ve been thinking about how one would cultivate a church … More Meditations for the Triduum Mortis
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