What makes a saint? Today isn’t actually All Saints Day, but it is All Saints Sunday. I’m sure there are lectionary purists or specialists who would abominate this, but the world in which we live doesn’t have the same connection to the church year that it once did. We can fulminate against it as much…
All Saints Day is one of the liturgical days that don’t get much attention in many Protestant churches. Not too surprising as it is one of the ones tied to a secular calendar date which makes difficult to get it in. There are two ways to deal with these special days, one is to ignore…
Today is All Saints’ Day. This is another one of those Liturgical days that is a bit of a challenge for a Protestant. When I was growing up we had lots of things around Halloween (or Hallowe’en for the purists) but precious little about All Saints’ or saints at all for that matter. I heard…