The Second Sunday in Advent[1] My wife, Julie, and I recently visited New York City to spend Thanksgiving with a close friend of ours. Being the history buffs that we are, during one of our days there we visited Hell’s Kitchen and the former Five Points Neighborhood – an area made famous several years …
A Day in the Cemetery
I recently completed an extra-credit assignment for my homiletics class in which I was required to explore how physical landscape and place can influence the development of my sermons. I chose, in doing this assignment, to visit a nearby cemetery in Alexandria, and I found the exercise meaningful enough that I thought I would …
Ad Orientem 