What makes a saint? I suppose the first thing to do is define what a “saint” is. At least one dictionary define saint as: a person that the Christian Church recognizes as being very holy, because of the way they have lived or died. (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/saint accessed November 1, 2026) So is this what we are…
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…