From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smellOf different flowers in odour and in hue,Could make me any summer’s story tell,Or from their proud …
I have recently come to enjoy the mystery genre, and since I already enjoyed Klavan's Another Kingdom series, I decided to read When Winter Comes as well. This book is neither like Another Kingdom nor Agatha Christie. Klavan is an intriguing writer; no two books (or series) of his I have read have been alike. And yet, I can see the …
https://thelutherancolumn.com/2018/12/22/rose-hymns-o-come-o-come-emmanuel/ This past week I shared the O Antiphons on my Instagram page (you can still check them out here!) and today I thought I’d share a post on the hymn “O Come O Come, Emmanuel” that I wrote for a friend’s blog a couple years ago. May you all have a blessed Christmas Eve! …
The Saint of Whistle Grove is a collection of stories glancing in on moments from different generations of this little settlement and how their lives, hopes, dreams, and failures shaped this church, even after death.
A work of art speaks a truth we can’t speak outright: the truth of the human experience. Love, joy, grief, guilt, beauty—no words can communicate these. We can only represent them in stories and pictures and songs. Art is the way we speak the meaning of our lives. I am of the opinion that one …
Madelyn Rose Craig 