WILL

For many of us the New Year seems to bring with it a certain melancholy for the year past and a determination that the year ahead is going to be different. Every year we try as Tennyson says to “ring out the false and ring in the true” through our seemingly endless list of resolutions... Continue Reading →

REPENTENCE

John the Baptist. This “in-your-face” “call em’ as you see em’” prophet dressed in a ragged camel hair, smelling of bug breath and the poverty of desert discipleship isn’t exactly the cozy Christmas character we might expect at this time of year. And though he is always a main character in our readings during the... Continue Reading →

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