Extra Thoughts

I was moved to reflect this past Sunday how incredibly fortunate I am to attend a church that uses an older hymnal. My continuing Anglican c...

Those who read my apologetics work know my fondness for the so-old-it's-new argument from undesigned coincidences. I'm feeling too l...

At the very end of Perelandra , when Ransom is about to return to earth and is saying goodbye to Tor and Tinidril, Tor and Tinidril ask Rans...

My title is taken from the prayer of consecration in the Book of Common Prayer. The context goes like this: And here we offer and present...

If you search this site for posts on the Ascension, you will find quite a few. It's a holy day that I rarely miss at least mentioning, e...

Today is Rejoice Sunday, in the midst of Advent. (It's rather a dark, cold, and snowy Rejoice Sunday, and Advent as a whole, where I liv...

Being an Anglican, and not a very good one either, I'm venturing into strange territory by giving an opinion on this subject, but here g...

Yes, I know, I should have posted on Ascension Day. All my purist Catholic friends on Facebook have been posting quips about people who thin...

The tabernacle is empty, the door standing open. The altar is stripped and bare. On Good Friday, we remember the Passion of Our Lord, the ...

It is Palm Sunday, and I have nothing much new to say. Years ago I poured myself into quite a few liturgical posts, and they still seem good...

Today was Bible Sunday in Advent, but I'm all skejipsed on my Advent schedule anyway, so I don't have a real Bible Sunday post. An  ...

A big topic, to which I doubt that I will do justice. If you faint by the wayside before reading the entire post, no one will blame you, I l...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified; Mercifu...

A blessed Holy Week to Extra Thoughts readers. Assist us mercifully with thy help, O Lord God of our salvation; that we may enter with joy u...

"Not for me the Hound of Heaven, but the never-ceasing silent appeal of Tabernacle, and the sense of starving hunger." J.R.R. To...