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About St. Andrew's
St. Andrew’s is an Anglican community in the beautiful mountain region of Lake Almanor, California. Father Brian Foos is the vicar of St. Andrew’s Church and, together with his wife Kathleen and a dedicated team, they provide a classic education for grammar school through college age youth, and run a store filled with homemade goods.
Earth & Altar: a journal on Anglican life and worship
EDUCATION & ENCHANTMENT:
RECOVERING THE LOST LOVE OF LEARNING
Is your child bored by school? To what extent are children’s imaginations being engaged by going to school. If you ask the children, it’s not …
20 YEARS OF ST. ANDREW’S ACADEMY, LAKE ALMANOR CA
St. Andrew’s Academy, in the Lake Almanor area of Northern California, was founded twenty years ago this past fall, by a local boy—me. Growing up …
THE ENGLISH AND THEIR CAKES
I’ve been blessed to travel to England at least ten times, and that doesn’t count the little stopovers for a day or two while going …
HALLOWEEN
Ghouls, ghosts, and witches, warlocks, and spooks of all kinds. These, along with every sort of Disney princess and comic book hero, seem to be …
HOLY WEEK
“Behold, we go up to Jerusalem!” With these Gospel words on Quinquagesima Sunday, the Church declares the Season of Lent to be a journey toward …
PREPARATION: THE PRACTICAL SIDE
This Lenten Season, it is my hope that I will learn and grow in spiritual disciplines; that my family will learn and grow in the …
A WORD ABOUT COLORS
When traditional Anglicans think of Lent, they usually see it in purple. Certainly, purple is commendable and was long a nearly universal practice. However, the …
RISEN: ANOTHER CHRISTIAN FILM BELOW THE MARK
By Jared Tomlinson Gregorian chant. Byzantine iconography. Gothic architecture. Renaissance polyphony. The Inklings. For most of the past two millennia, Christians have been at the forefront …
PRAYER, FASTING, ALMS: IMPORTANT DISCIPLINES
By the Rev’d Dr. Daniel McGrath This year during Lent the topics of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving will be featured in many sermons, written about in …
GIVING UP: ONLY BY FASTING AND PRAYER
By the Rev’d Bradley Cunningham It has been a pleasure these past (almost) 30 years to exercise the disciplines of Lent. Each year I learn more …