Pastor Page, February 6, 2008 It’s Lent, and during this time, we’re to consider our past and future, and traditionally, this has meant contemplating our own complicity and guilt in the drama; after all, it is for our sins that he died. And so, many people around the globe spend extra time in [...]
Pastor Page, January 30, 2008
Lent is barreling down upon us—next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday already—and it seems we just got over Advent and Christmas. Easter is on March 23 this year, only one day later than the earliest it can be. (There are thirty-five possible dates for Easter, from March 22 to April 25, [...]
Pastor Page, January 23, 2008
So you’re cruising down the highway, with your windows open and the radio on, and there’s Willie singing about being on the road again (I know, I know . . . this is a public radio crowd, but work with me here), and you’re tapping your finger on the steering wheel, [...]
Pastor Page, January 15, 2008
I came across a new word recently–bloggish. It seems to mean “having the character of a blog,” and I suppose you’d use it in a sentence like this: “That article is very bloggish.” If you aren’t a fan of blogs, it would mean “amateurish” [...]
Pastor Page, January 8, 2008
I hope everyone has had a good Christmas and New Year, and is ready to get back into the saddle. I know I am . . . nearly two weeks off (more or less) has done me a lot of good. Time off is especially relevant in this hectic [...]
Pastor Page, January 8, 2008
I hope everyone has had a good Christmas and New Year, and is ready to get back into the saddle. I know I am . . . nearly two weeks off (more or less) has done me a lot of good. Time off is especially relevant in this hectic society of [...]
Pastor Page, December 18, 2007
In need of a rest at this Advent season, I went in search of hymn-nical (I know, I know . . . not a word) inspiration. I tried to find “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” in our blue Presbyterian Hymnal, and lo and behold—what a wondrous sight—it’s not in there. [...]
Pastor Page, December 11, 2007
When I think of the church, I think of a group of disparate people, bound together in Christ. Of course, they aren’t all that disparate, most churches cover a fairly narrow socio-economic slice—upper middle class, blue-collar, white collar, etc. But still: churches are [...]
Pastor Page, December 4, 2007
Television sets the tone of many a time of year, and at this time of year it’s Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. I was flipping through the channels last night—we have far too many, it turns out—and adjacent to one another on the channel guide were two with strangely similar titles. [...]
Pastor Page, November 27, 2007
As the title suggests, Into Great Silence is a film about silence . . . one hundred and sixty-two minutes of silence, to be exact. In 1984 filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery deep in the French Alps, [...]
