“Take up and read…”

Dear Christ the Redeemer family, Soon we will enter the Incarnation season: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. We’ll begin this liturgical year (the first Sunday of Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year—this year that will be 3 December) with an exploration...

Restored Relationships

On Monday, November 6th, the New York Times ran an editorial which pointed out that in the previous 511 days there had been 555 mass shootings in our nation. There’s been at least one more since. Much might be said about how these events are now normal for us (given...

“Love and Marriage, Love and Marriage…”

“…go together like a horse and carriage.” Well, it wasn’t before the automobile was invented, but it was a long time ago that Caleb and I were married, at 23 and 20 years old. Right away we found that families of origin create expectations…the roles of...