Author Archives: Alex Grudem

Recent storms have created a small aperture in the shroud of summer. This 19th-century poem, written by the Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, ends with a plea that resonates deeply…

Beloved Christ Church Anglican, The year is 1939. Rumblings of war are shaking the earth for the second time in the 20th century, and the congregation is gathered at an…

BLESS US, LORD Lord, when you blessed little children, you also blessed every adult, for childhood is not in our past but the pure state we carry with us, still…

I spent my first seventeen Christmases in a large Catholic parish in Jackson, Tennessee. St. Mary’s spared no expense in decorating the sanctuary for the Christmas season. As a child,…

A request from the Rector Search Committee (RSC) Dear Christ Church Community, The RSC would like to invite you to join us in fasting during this time of searching for…