Weekend Edition for August 23-24, 2025

Little Plastic Castles. In this episode, we read the first Inkling, Owen Barfield, as he defends the use of old words, old stories, and old ways of expressing what’s good, beautiful, and true against modern proponents that argued for more modern “scientific” ways of judging language, esp., poetics and myth, as well as religion and culture.

Liturgy Amongst the Rubble. In this episode, we read poems by W.H. Auden about pulp fiction, ancient myths, conversion, liturgy, poetics, and how industrialization and corporatism build a new Babel inside and around the churches.

When you step into the Lord’s house, he gives you a liturgical imagination to see with eyes of faith all of his goodness and grace.

What I was missing—what so many are missing—is a Church that doesn’t just speak about Christ, but delivers him.

“The fear of the Lord” is our heart’s awakening to and recognition of God’s outrageous goodness.

How intentional will we be about utilizing gospel spaces that already inescapably communicate?

Today on the Christian History Almanac, we pause to remember the beginning of the “Lenten” season (and this year, with the East and the West together!)

In episode THREE HUNDRED AND TWELVE, Mike, Jason, and Wade discuss the Protestant fear of formalism, or ritualism?

In the liturgy, Christ is present, self-giving, and ever-addressing his people.

Christians don’t need a bucket list. We’ve got the whole bucket: the Word fulfilled, life fulfilled, and life in full.

The liturgy ensures that the gospel is never something inward, merely a thought or sentiment of the believer.