Epiphany is Christmas 2.0. Its conspicuous place following the nativity narrative in Matthew’s Gospel presents it as the “other Christmas,” the “Christmas of the Gentiles.” At the first Christmas we find a swaddled baby in a manger visited by shepherds from the fields summoned by angels. In the “other Christmas,” we find a toddler at
The saints go marching all year long. Maybe your family’s Christmas season is colored by some happy birthdays or sad memories.
To talk about celebrating the full 12 days of Christmas, one must first talk about celebrating Advent. To do otherwise …
Ah, Christmas: that wonderful time of year when the church music and readings are all comfortably familiar …
An abundance of good things can fool us into believing we deserve everything we have and just a little bit more, too.
Does this article exist? You can’t hold it in your hands, turn the pages, mark it up with a pen and highlighter, or crumple it up …
That particular joy is this: I do not want to unwrap any presents on Christmas morning. I just want to go to church.
You can hear the laments of victims crying out for justice and you can also see the heroes patting themselves on the back.
“Every civilized man wants peace.” What peace does the world so earnestly desire? The peace that comes from …
We’ve all certainly heard of “eleventh-hour conversions” … Would this have been the opposite? Eleventh-hour wavering? Deathbed doubt?
More than 25 years ago, a funeral was simply a funeral; they were all the same. The visitation happened at the funeral home …
Despite our best efforts to avoid them, pain and suffering appear in our lives. Lessing reminds us: “Exile doesn’t negate God’s promises.”