“The Duties of Hard Times”

As a way of testing my PDF scanning workflow, I wanted to publish a document that was plainly in the public domain and potentially interesting to my readership. I had on hand a sermon by the Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, the minister of the (Unitarian) First Church of Boston, preached there April 23, 1837, entitled “The… Continue reading “The Duties of Hard Times”

The scope of the lectionary review

As you may know, I write the day’s blog post the night before and I came home a bit tired on Monday, so the post I planned with have to be parsed out over a few days. I have been comparing the collects and “Mass readings” — appointed Epistles and Gospels — in several prayerbooks:… Continue reading The scope of the lectionary review