Author Archives: Alex Grudem

Advent Resource List

Advent Resources: – Pray the Daily Office throughout Advent (Families, did you know there are special “Family Prayer” liturgies in your BCP, abbreviated for your whole family to use? These…

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Five Dialogues on the Greatest Commandment

The Anglican priest and poet Fr. Malcolm Guite writes five dialogues between himself and God on the Greatest Commandment, which appears in our Gospel reading for this Sunday (Mark 12:28-34):…

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The Communion of Saints

The ACNA is a fairly small world, which means that many of you were shocked to hear the news that 50-year-old Fr. Thomas McKenzie and his 22-year-old daughter were killed…

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The Bread of Life

I have had the deep privilege this summer of spending twelve weeks in the Old Testament as part of my seminary studies. As I’ve engaged with the major and minor…

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Ordinary Time as Holy Time

Imagine a Carmelite monastery in 17th-century Paris, France. Monks set about their daily task of ora et labora—prayer and work. Deep in a kitchen, hands buried in a basin of soapy…

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