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“There’s a big possum in the courtyard,” Annie said. I came to the door and looked out.  Sure enough, the marsupial denizen was poddling out the gate toward the street.  She wasn’t that big, but she was indeed a possum.  Fast for a possum is slow for almost anything else, so with a little spurt…

The purpose of life is most of all in what God does, secondly in what we do together, and least of all in what we do as our own achievement. Our American individualism turns those three things around. People search mightily for achievement on their own, making it the first goal, and then are stunned…

In many older European churches, and in Orthodox Christian churches throughout the world, a screen stands between the congregation and the precinct of the priests, where the altar is.  In traditional Gothic cathedrals so constructed, this “rood screen” separates the entire choir area – the place where the monastic community and various clergy worshipped several…

The worst thing of all would be for the Messiah to be born in Metropolitan Richmond this December and for all of us to miss it. Yet one wonders how in the world we could ever see it. For one thing, we are so fragmented, so without a single center, that wherever it was, most…

The opposite of faith is not unbelief but futility. Christianity is based on what must be the ultimate happy ending – the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Volumes have been written, churches have been divided, and purported heretics have been burned over the supposed “meaning” of this event. But the event, I think, is…