{bits & pieces}

If you won the giveaway of A Child’s Christmas ABC Book: Angels in the Air Arrayed (affiliate link) an email will be wending its way to you!

Lots of things to do this weekend, including lots of Christmas knitting, but I do have some links for you!

bits & pieces

A provocative article: Why You’re Wrong about Sacred Art, by Daniel Matsui.

If you liked the mittens I posted on IG, this is the pattern: Minky Mittens.

I also like this vintage mitten pattern — it’s fairly straightforward and has all the sizes.

An interesting post on garden beehives through the ages.

My theory is that we can’t have good stories or even comedy without a sense of the transcendent and the conviction that behind everything, there is the Good. We have to confront this fact about our time and what it means for our culture: “The poverty of … postmodernism-passing-for-irony is that it is enslaved to its own fear of being banal. It refuses to take the world seriously without understanding the seriousness of that pose.” Matthew Morgan, Laughter and Tears: Is Life a Comedy or a Tragedy?

Remembering C. S. Lewis. “For Lewis, the great tragedy of the 20th century was the loss of confidence in objective moral norms and an objective sense of truth. In his essay ‘The Poison of Subjectivism’ (1943), Lewis stated bluntly, ‘Unless we return to a crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.'”

from the archives

The danger of using affection as a disciplinary tool

Some Christmas books we’ve loved in our home

liturgical living

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