Blashfield’s Forbidden Garden

Dr. Dennis Raverty, an art historian at New Jersey City University, contacted Ascension last fall to ask permission to photograph Edwin Howland Blashfield's Angel With a Flaming Sword, the dramatic painting on the rear wall of our nave. He has written an article about Blashfield which appeared in this week's Living Church.

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In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz shares a Thanksgiving reflection centered on a prayer from Diana Butler Bass’s Grateful: The Subversive Power of Giving Thanks. In times marked by uncertainty and division, the prayer calls us to choose gratitude deliberately—to recognize life, the earth, and one another as gifts of God’s love. Around our tables, we are invited to resist fear and anger, to keep love at the center, and to live in “a circle of gratitude.” May this Thanksgiving strengthen us in grace, generosity, and thanksgiving that transforms.

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