a blog by Candice Gage
I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't come from a sports-loving family. We do, however, love our state, and when we heard the Chiefs were playing in the Super Bowl this year, we decided to tune in. We whipped up some healthy versions of our favorite finger foods and cheered on the Chiefs… Continue reading Thoughts on He Gets Us
Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Psalm 96:2 I started praying the Psalms as a spiritual discipline sometime in 2014. I had read Scot McKnight's Praying with the Church, and I was inspired to take on the Christian tradition of praying the prayers of the saints. I started with Phyllis Tickle's The Divine Hours, as this collection was recommended… Continue reading Book Review: Wright’s ‘The Case for the Psalms’
A collage of images from pop culture made up my earliest understanding of St. Mary – pictures picked up in the childish ways we begin to learn anything. There was the illustrated Mary in my Golden Book. There was the pink-robed Mary in the tiny children’s nativity my mom ordered from Avon. The image that… Continue reading Book Review: Pitre’s ‘Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary’
If someone had told me at the beginning of 2020 what lay ahead, I would have thought they were paranoid and alarmist. Yet in just months, speculation became reality as life changed suddenly and dramatically. For me, the pandemic and cultural unrest — around everything from race to the economy to the election — have… Continue reading Singles and ‘The Benedict Option’
I still remember the first time someone explained the Anglican view of Baptism to me. It was 12 years ago, and I was an Evangelical college student, listening to a lecture on the Reformation. Our instructor was Anglican, and as a part of his discussion, he explained the early Reformed view of Baptism. I don’t… Continue reading Book Review: Sutton’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”
Incandescent Ink 