: aefenglommung (aefenglommung) wrote,
2011-08-22 23:24:00

aefenglommung
aefenglommung
2011-08-22 23:24:00

Looking ahead

I'll be starting work on my Fall sermons (and maybe beyond) this week, as I head out to Wilderstead for some quiet time and hard work. I'm thinking of an Advent sermon on the birth of John the Baptist called "Forerunners" (working title). The trigger for my thinking is, of course, that great Old English quote that so inspired J.R.R. Tolkien,

Eala earendel engla beorhtast
ofer middangeard monnum sended.

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Looking ahead

A sacramental theology is more than a theology of the sacraments

Dedicatory remarks

A rose by any other name would still need grammar

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