"New Year's: Beyond Resolutions to Conversion" at Episcopal Cafe

My most recent article, "New Year's: Beyond Resolutions to Conversion" was posted today over at "The Episcopal Cafe."

Here's an excerpt:

A trouble with New Year’s resolutions is that they don’t seem to “stick.” The promise of the Christian Faith is that God is with us, helping us always to turn to our better selves, and to grow into the fullness of who we are meant to be. This may sound like a cliché, but let me illustrate my point with three images: Scrooge, Groundhog Day, and “metanoia.”

Read it all HERE.

"New Year's" from the Oxford English Dictionary

from Oxford English Dictionary Online
Oxford University Press 2008

New Year's, n.

Chiefly N. Amer.

Brit. [Short for New Year's Day n. at NEW YEAR n. Compounds 3.]

New Year's Day.

1845 Knickerbocker 25 128 Stay away on New-Year's and you stay away all the year. 1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 450/1 Almiry, who's always wantin' fresh ribbons about New Year's. 1909 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 4 Nov. 1 The general elections are not now expected until after New Year's. 1952 J. REANEY in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1960) 383 The Christmas holidays were haunted for me by my fear of what would happen when I went back there after New Year's. 1975 F. DECKER in S. Terkel Working IV. 190 She's just lucky he's home Christmas and New Year's.