The Vicar’s Garden Today
The temperature was 84F, 29C by 10:00 Eastern, so Lancaster Co. Amish arrived.
Something about Roses
The June gap just passed and the longest day behind me, I wanted to pause in the history of my garden begun earlier in the year to write about roses. I have plans to add more to my cottage garden. To that end, I ordered two varieties from David Austin Roses: The Claire Austin and… Read More Something about Roses
Catalogues
The January freeze has moved into my little back garden in Mt. Ephraim, so that means it’s time to put up the spade and fork, sharpen the pruning tools, watch the forecast, and pour through the 2019 seed and plant catalogues that were dropped in my mailbox. Being a bit of an “old school” gardener,… Read More Catalogues
2014
Looking Northeast Looking North-northwest Looking Northwest I have just come in from my first bit of gardening work in 2019. I had to replant some penstemon digitalis Husker Red, a white Phlox paniculata and hosta that were moved while the trench was cut along the east fence for the greenhouse electrical line. Nothing like getting back out… Read More 2014
Turning Over a New Leaf
Now that I have passed my the sixtieth year and my ministry as Canon Theologian prevents me from writing on matters of the church as I did previously, I thought to use my blog site to turn to my love of gardening. We purchased our home in 2013 in Mt. Ephraim, New Jersey USA with… Read More Turning Over a New Leaf
Forty Years
Funny the things that come into your head when the usual timetable of your day is put aside for a holiday. I realized today that I took my first course in ancient Greek (Koine) in 1976 and my first course in classical Latin in 1977. Latin would have beaten Greek to the starting block if… Read More Forty Years
Read The Christian’s Reasonable Service in a Year
“This brings us at once to the heart of the matter. À Brakel wrote this work for church members—not for theologians.” – Bartel Elshout, Translator A NEW 2015 Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChristiansReasonableService/) has been created where a one-year reading plan is provided and members may engage in lively discussion of Wilhelmus à Brakel’s The Christian’s Reasonable Service.… Read More Read The Christian’s Reasonable Service in a Year
I Asked the Lord that I Might Grow
Precious are the times when a classic hymn transfixes you. One did this week. Under pressure for a sermon draft deadline, my head was down and the fingers moving across the keyboard as iTunes played a shuffle of songs behind. That’s when I heard Anglican John Newton’s 1779 hymn, “I Asked the Lord that I… Read More I Asked the Lord that I Might Grow
10,000+ Views
The WordPress Statistics page told me that my blog passed 10,000 views this week. I am stunned. I know that in the digital world news sites can receive 10,000 views in minutes and large churches can see weekend attendance at that number, but I am just a small church pastor/church planter in a small corner… Read More 10,000+ Views
Thank You, Article XXXVII
One of the realities when you switch churches and denominations is how one network of communication is unplugged and another network is connected. It takes a bit of time to find out where you are in all of this. But after having done moves to England and back again I have found that it is best… Read More Thank You, Article XXXVII
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