The Tash Files – Chapter 23 – Reepicheep 1
My Dear Oxiana, I could have predicted the outcome of this latest episode with your despicable patient before it came to pass. After all, have I not, out of an abundance of concern for you…
Year: 2021
Susan of Narnia: Remembering (The Eighth Chronicle of Narnia) – Afterward: Why I Wrote Susan of Narnia
I was first introduced to the world of Narnia when I was about eleven years old, through the BBC movie, “Prince Caspian.” I hated that movie so much. In fact, I don't remember ever hating…
Salaam, Maryam
It was a simple clay building, with little pomp or decoration. A single girl dwelled within, and the locals called her Blessed Maryam for her piety. Now, at the dawning of the day, she held…
The Coming of Christmas
We have candled your coming O Lord of Love. As from the deep dark we have watched and waited your wombing into world; lit lamps of longing in our Advent art and found freedom in…
Legend of the Christmas Fae
Oh, when the Savior was born on Earth we have heard the tales how shepherds came from tending herds in the hills to worship at the stable dim. Of how wise men from far away…
Christmas Reflection 2021
By Elizabeth Roper This Christmas time my reflection is on the many crises in the world and the opportunity we are given to enact our spiritual callings and apply their ways of being to how…
The Darkest Day
Those carefree days of Summer are a dim and distant dream.Autumn’s blaze of colours seems so very far away.I lay my sleeping bag behind a row of bins that make a useful screen.I close my…
Tidings of Comfort and Joy – F&F Christmas 2021 Newsletter
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ~ Edith Sitwell …
The Christmas Puzzle
By Amanda Pizzolatto Oh Christmas road, oh Christmas road, how bittersweet is your dusty path, How weary each and every one will be, Yet for our home we pay this small fee . Oh Christmas…
The Tash Files – Chapter 22 – Miraz
My dear Fratri, Well done, my little protege, well done. Unlike so many of your worthless colleagues, you’ve managed to bring a very delectable meal down to my dinner table and now I get to…