Franklin of Anselm: Updates from Living in God's Time
My Year With The Community of St. Anselm, A Choose Your Own Adventure Story…Where God's in Charge
Last Sunday, the Community gathered on Zoom for a nighttime service meant to bring the immersive and integrated members together, to celebrate Pascha alongside the Orthodox churches, and to continue the story of the Resurrection, which continues to inspire and instruct us throughout Eastertide. Anna, the Integrated member from Zimbabwe, and I planned the service: … Continue reading Paschal Compline
Maundy Thursday Months ago, when The Community of St. Anselm hosted a teacher at the Palace every week, we welcomed an endearingly prickly, quirky theologian who taught us about the Eucharist. Perhaps teaching a bit above our collective understanding of Communion (we were just expecting an overview of different traditions: high, low, and so on,) … Continue reading Re-membering a Community
The first week of November, Dr. Alison Gray, from Westminster College, Cambridge, taught us about the Psalms. An excellent and approachable instructor, Dr. Gray introduced us to the history, voices, and devotional application of the psalter. She also described the three dominant types of psalms. Based on Walter Brueggemann’s classification of the psalms, Dr. Gray … Continue reading A Season of Psalms
My friends, in this post, I will discuss and connect many events of the last week: our Commitment Service on Wednesday, Sept. 25th, the Vespers services that some of us designed to help us process our Commitment, and the monthly service of Healing and Wholeness that we celebrated Monday, the last day of September. I … Continue reading Outward Signs
James Franklin Lowe… I have never answered to James, except to take pity on a substitute teacher. I have always been Franklin, except for when I was Frankie in middle school and Frank, during an ill-advised stint as an ATV instructor. I was Roo before I could spell my whole name, then Bud-Bud at home, … Continue reading A Year of Brother Fin
Franklin of Anselm: Updates from Living in God's Time 