Agnus Dei Newsletter
Looking to Christ’s return in hope, not despair!
Dear Good Shepherd Saints, Readings from the Book of the Revelation are almost always read on feast days or festival seasons in the church, such as Epiphany, Easter, All Saints’ Sunday, or on the Last Sunday of Pentecost: Christ the King. There’s a good reason for this....
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The autumn of the year is a time of turning
Dear Good Shepherd Saints, The autumn of the year is a time of turning, an image that I really like. Not only does nature reflect this outward turning, with changing leaves and ripening fruits, but our outer lives reflect this turning, too, as we put away cooler clothes, get o...
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Works Righteousness
Dear Saints of God, The letter of James is one of the books of the Bible that the Protestant reformers had trouble with. If not read in context, James can be (and has been) accused of promoting “works righteousness.” In other words, his letter could be seen as promoting the id...
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Richard Hooker, an Anglican priest and theologian
Dear Saints of God, As we have noted in Adult Sunday School and Inquirers’ Class over the last year, Episcopalians read scripture in a different way from some other denominations.
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