For this Epiphany season
For those of you still on holiday and who enjoy spending time listening, reading, and reflecting here are a couple of recommendations you might enjoy.
The Very Rev’d Dr. Andrew McGowan, Dean of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, features in this Advent episode of the podcast The Leader’s Way. Dean McGowan reflects on his career as a priest, academic, and administrator and shares how the Daily Office helps him maintain balance in the midst of it all. He shares the “what” and “why” behind the lectionary. Listen, watch, and read for insightful dialogue on faith, ministry, and the deeper meanings of this sacred season.
Similarly themed, my good friend Dr John Dennison writes for the Venn Foundation in this longer article:
Advent launches us into Christmas, Epiphany yields to the pilgrimage of Lent and Holy Week, before Easter erupts in praise. Pentecost ushers in Ordinary Time, lingering in the life of Christ, drawing us slowly towards the season of holy anticipation, Advent. And so, each year, around we go, following in the footsteps of Jesus
By Andrew Butcher