Let Us Bless the Lord Year Two Advent-Holy Week creating cruel dilemmas for today’s

creating cruel dilemmas for today’s Christian in the form of error

Because one of the simplest facts of life—that we all die—seems like the most complicated thing we do

This volume addresses the difficult and essential area of pastoral preaching as a kind of spiritual leadership in which compassionate healing and courageous confrontation are experienced not as polar opposites

he explores how we can approach our own lives as pilgrimage

”—Cintra Pemberton

Let Us Bless the Lord Year Two Advent-Holy Week creating cruel dilemmas for today’sPopular author, retreat leader, and priest Barbara Crafton rises early each morning, lights a candle, opens her Book of Common Prayer, and reads the morning officethe ancient Christian service that praises God at the beginning of a new day. When she is done, Crafton sits down at her computer and sends out an e mail that says simply, "Let us bless the Lord," the traditional closing line of the morning prayer service. Her devoted readers reply, "Thanks