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For my personalized Liturgy Watchlist I chose a selection of films that I feel reflect the different virtues of the Advent season. Each lit candle symbolizes one of the virtues represented over the four Sundays of Advent, culminating in the Christ Candle as the true and full expression of these virtues embodied in the ChristmasContinue reading “Liturgy and Film- Hugo and the Faith of Advent”

I was inspired by a recent podcast episode from Think Christian to think about film in a Liturgical sense. Growing into a liturgical environment in my later and most recent years, Liturgy is something I have grown to challenge and cherish as it has helped to inform my relationship with God. This episode about faith,Continue reading “Liturgy Wathlist: Celebrating Advent through Film”

Matthew 3:1-12 English Standard Version (ESV) John the Baptist Prepares the Way 3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”[a] 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare[b] the way of theContinue reading “ADVENT REFLECTION: MATTHEW 3:1-12”

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Christmas is often seen as a time to stop, reflect and reorient ourselves from a life centered towards ourselves to a life centered on God and others. A breaking through of our routine. Liturgically speaking, it is the start of the Christian calendar, the beginning of that long road to being shaped towardsContinue reading “Thanksgiving And Virtuous Living”

Sadly, it has been a while since I’ve visited this space. With this being the end of a decade, I have been dedicating most of my time to working through a lengthy watchlist of films from the last decade, with the hope of eventually putting together a definitive top list of the decade this comingContinue reading “A Summer of Recondition and Renewal: Discovering The Difference Between Believing and Living”

When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. (Luke 2:39-40) My word for this year (see my ROSEBUD resolution challenge in this space) is Perspective. ThinkingContinue reading “From Advent to Christmas to Epiphany to the Time After- Learning to Become a Disciple of Jesus in the Ordinary of the Everyday”

“It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”  ― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk Poetry. Poetry in motion. This is how I would describe If Beale Street Could Talk One could argue that the cries for acceptance, healing and freedom run deeper in Jenkin’s previous, Oscar winning Moonlight, but the dance of these sameContinue reading “If Beale Street Could Talk and The Power of a Human Moment”

It’s 3:00 A.M. on New Years Day. A cup of coffee finds me still awake and finishing off some of my blog posts and resolutions and thoughts of the year that has just past. In the dim light of the lamp that now sits in the corner of the room where our tree once gracedContinue reading “Our Lucy Girl: Remembering our Spirited Pup”

It’s that time again. As I spend time looking backwards, I’m also looking forward. Here is what is topping my personal most anticipated list for 2019:   14. Teen Spirit A follow up to A Star is Born or its own thing. More likely its own thing. And dang if it doesn’t look like anContinue reading “2019- My Most Anticipated Films List”

(amended from last year: a working description of what ROSEBUD is) A few years ago I began a New Years Resolution Plan called Rosebud. I heard about it on one of the podcasts that I follow. The process essentially looks like this: Step 1: List Three Roses- This is the stuff that I would considerContinue reading “Rosebud: A Continuing Resolution Process”