Hope of Christ Church

I find myself battling in the middle of every December with the two natures inside my own breast.  One wants desperately to think differently this season and to be moved by quiet meditations upon the birth of the Christ, who came not in hustle and bustle, but softy and quietly like a gentle snowfall.  The [...]

In the very early centuries of the church, bishops would write annual holiday letters to their congregations and communities in order to encourage the faithful and to instruct in ways that might not otherwise be addressed from the normal week to week preaching from the pulpit.  These were usually Easter letters providing meditations and teachings [...]