Simeon’s Nunc Dimittis

December 17, 2021

Waiting. It is one of the central themes of Advent — that pregnant pause as Mary and Joseph wait for …

Zechariah’s Benedictus

December 10, 2021

What is it like to have speech restored after a prolonged period of complete silence? A few years back, a …

December 3, 2021

I don’t know if you have noticed, but Christmas songs are about all you hear on the radio these days. …

November 26, 2021

I come from sturdy people. I say this, not in a spirit of bragging, but simply as a statement of …

December 25, 2020

This year will be the first in over twenty years that we will not travel to my in-laws’ house for …