Ordinary Places

The totality of our lives are mostly spent doing simple tasks: tying our shoes, doing the dishes, brushing our teeth. What are we as Christians to make of the humdrum days, tasks, and moments that pervade our schedules? What if Christians viewed those tasks, not as humdrum, but as gifts from God to mobilize the world immediately around us to the glory of God? We explore those questions this month!

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On A Porch Sipping Dandelion Wine

Annie Nardone recommends
a tale from Ray Bradbury in
her Pages, Pints, and Pours.

The Singing Tree

The wood a violin is made of
determines its voice, says
Christina Brown, pointing to
this truth: matter matters.

An Old Fashioned Call to Slow Down from Wendell Berry

In this Pages, Pints, and Pours, Annie Nardone orders up an collection of elder wisdom worth sipping slowly.

Emerging from the Darkness into Light

Look to the lowly (and loud)
cicada for encouragement.
Haven't we all felt buried?
Yet a new life was coming.

Planted, Not Rooted

Claire Keiser: a meditation on the relationship between the sublime and the ordinary.

Hemmed In

No matter how small or great our bounded space may be in any given season, there is room to do what He has given us to do.

Imagination Redeemed Podcast (June Episode)

In every episode, we retell one of the great stories, then follow its illumination to delve deeper into conversation about how to enter into the life of the Christian imagination.

In the kitchen sink

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Anthony esolen’s “An Encounter with the Ordinary”

How does leaving a tenured professorship at Providence College for a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire, apply to the Anselm Society? Read Anselm Fellow Dr. Esolen’s motivations and see for yourself!

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Gianna Soderstrom's "The Kitchen of Transfiguration"

Anselm Member and Arts Guild Assistant Director unpacks the gift that comes through faithfulness in everyday obedience to the small, unseen actions given to us by God.

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