Marking Time

Most Christians attend, at one time or another, rituals to ""hatch, match and dispatch"" in other words, baptisms, weddings and funerals. But what should Christians do to celebrate all of the important moments in between? In Marking Time: Christian Rituals for All Our Days, Linda Witte Henke offers valuable suggestions for creating rituals to mark occasions such as pregnancy, adoption, moving into a new house or beginning the school year, as well as unhappy events such as divorce, miscarriage or illness. ( Aug.)