In 1941, the poet W. H. Auden started writing a Christmas oratorio to be set to music by Benjamin Britten. He imagined it as a set of modern-day monologues voicing the perspectives of characters in the Christmas story and he shifted the setting to represent the world around him. The mood of the poem was…
I woke up one morning last week convinced that it was Friday. As the coffee surged through my veins, I opened my iPad and noticed the date said Saturday. Several minutes passed before I admitted to myself that I was wrong. Somehow, I was a whole day behind! Although extreme, this is not an isolated…
Singer-songwriter Brian Doerksen is no stranger to eucatastrophe. Doerksen is a Juno Award winning recording artist who now mentors songwriters online. He was born and raised in British Columbia. Doerksen’s music – including songs like “Refiner’s Fire” – has been a staple for Christians around the world for over three decades. Eucatastrophe is a moment…
The Church is in a catastrophe. I could quote the statistics, but if you’re paying attention, you don’t need them. You know that church attendance is in a historic downturn unlike any other time in Western history, that our sacred spaces are being converted into luxury condos, and that our denominations (seemingly across the board)…
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, had a shadow over his life. His father Arthur died when John was very young, leaving him in the tender care of his mother, Mabel. When she and her children converted to Catholicism, they were estranged from their remaining relatives. When…
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