Theologian's Almanac for Week of January 16, 2022
Daily Inspiration, Theologian's Almanac, Worship ResourcesElizabeth MyerMary Karr, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, MLK Day, Lead Belly, Mennonites, Roe v. Wade, Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Theologian's Almanac for Week of January 9, 2022
Theologian's Almanac, Daily Inspiration, Worship ResourcesElizabeth Myerfirst oil well, Petroleum Age, Aldo Leopold, William James, Johnny Cash and June Carter, Johnny Cash, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day
"The Work of Christmas," by Howard Thurman
"On the Mystery of the Incarnation" by Denise Levertov
"Christmas Poem," by E. E. Cummings
Van Gogh and Christmas
Christmas and Distance
Understanding Christmas - Part Four: Rethinking Christmas
"Black Rook in Rainy Weather," by Sylvia Plath
Theologian's Almanac for Week of December 19, 2021
Advent, Christmas, Daily Inspiration, Theologian's Almanac, Worship ResourcesElizabeth MyerCharles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life, Winter Solstice, Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, Christmas Eve Truce, Silent Night, Silent Night history, Earthrise, Earthrise 1968, Fessenden, first radio broadcast, Christmas Day history, Christmas, St. Francis Nativity, St. Francis, Clara Barton, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kwanzaa, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Endless forms most beautiful
Free Advent Film: Let Every Heart
Understanding Christmas - Part Three: Heart of the Matter
Theologian's Almanac for Week of December 12, 2021
"john," "a song of mary," and "mary's dream," by Lucille Clifton
Understanding Christmas - Part Two: Silent Night
Theologian's Almanac for Week of December 5, 2021
Daily Inspiration, Theologian's Almanac, Worship ResourcesElizabeth MyerChristina Rossetti, St. Nicholas, Joyce Kilmer, Alfred Joyce Kilmer, Apollo 17, Blue Marble photograph, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson birthday, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Christmas Sparrow," by Billy Collins
Understanding Christmas - Part One: Hope Against Hope
"Prayer After Eating," by Wendell Berry
"Remembering that it happened once," by Wendell Berry