WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS! I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED YOU ARE HERE! I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS LIBRARY WITH YOU! Once upon a time (pre-Covid), thus began my weekly spiel, as I led visitors from all over the world, on a tour of the Nation’s Library. This bibliophile previously had worked Bishop…
Once upon a time, I built a Christmas tree out of books. This is not as crazy as it sounds. I used to work (at least part of the time) in a library. Deeply rooted in theological knowledge, I built my tree out of old National Union Catalogues, Anchor Bible Commentaries, and dusty volumes of…
“Summertime and the Livin’ is…” George Gershwin A bibliophile, my book stack is always piled high. There are so many reasons why I read but the beauty of a book, no matter what it is about, is that it can be read anywhere. Portable inspiration, intellectual inquiry, history, mystery, biography, theology, romance, and travelogue. Over…
There is absolutely no doubt about it. Emmanuel is neither high church nor low church. More broad church, we are a”bibliophile” parish. Our book piles stacked high with just about every kind of literature you can imagine. Last Sunday, the day we sprung forward and lost an hour, attendance was a bit down at “zoom…
A few weeks ago at Emmanuel’s Zoom Coffee hour, my friend Meredith led a discussion of the very first places we would like to go post-pandemic. And I blurted out without hesitation: “I want to return to that happiest and most sacred of spaces: The Library of Congress!” It has been a year now and…
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