Epiphany Sunday is one of my favorite days. (I spent a whole chapter of my first book,The Boundary Breaking-God, talking about all the reasons why.) Yes, the camels help. I do love camels. But mostly, it’s the magi. The magi were outsiders who came an unfathomable distance to honor...
overlying the ugly scars, gifts from her husband Akshay, that crisscrossed the wheatish skin above her wrist. They reminded her of the tiny lines running towards a river on a map, of the kind she had frantically consulted before landing here. She had no idea where Gobekli Tepe or Anatolia...
Plough Sunday was designed to give the Church's blessing to the plough and was followed by dancing and revelry before the serious hard work of ploughing the land and sowing the seed started in earnest. The date was usually the first Sunday after Epiphany, which fell between January 7 and ...