A young Jackson woman lost her life this past week in a car wreck (hideous pictures on theClarion-Ledger website). Her only participation in the wreck was that she happened to be drivinghome from work. On any other day, she would have been in the right place at the right time. Shewas on a side street, low speed limit. Clear day, still daylight. She may have been thinking aboutlesson plans for her new children at MRA. ‘You can’t start them on computers too early,’ she mayhave thought. She lived…See More

For you English teachers – or for those who simply love grammar and literary devices – thispiece of the letter to the Hebrews (which was begun last week) is enough to make you swoon. It’sgot a healthy dose of anaphora and a generous helping of asyndeton mixed up nicely with multipleexamples and a rhetorical question or two.Asyndeton is essentially the absence of conjunctions. Each sentence packs its own punchwhen it isn’t conjoined to sentences before and after (think “I came. I saw. I…See More

The 8 AM Sunday service at All Saints’ Chapel in Sewanee was a favorite of many localresidents and a good number of faculty members, whether active or retired, undergraduate orseminary. It was not a crowd that you wanted to make a mistake in front of, as one college studentlearned when, as a lector, he began the epistle reading with “A reading from Paul’s letter to theHebrews.” You could have heard a communion wafer drop.Now the congregation was a reverent and godly one, so no one leapt from…See More

Sundays 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I9:15 a.m. Choir Practice10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II10:30 a.m. Children Chapel and Children’s Sunday SchoolMondays 5:30 p.m. Choir PracticeTuesdays 10:00 a.m. Bible Study in Parish Hall2:00 p.m. Centering PrayerWednesdays6:00 p.m. Holy EucharistNote: on the 1st Wednesday of each month there is a Healing Service and Holy Eucharist.Readings for the month of August are as follows:August 1, The Tenth Sunday after PentecostFirst Lesson: Hosea 11:1-11Psalm:…See More