Black Fridays, shopping Saturdays, crammed schedules. The Christmas season can become quite unlike the Christmas story, and our priorities can …
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Christmas is like no other time of year. The lights, the decorations, the activities – they all draw our attention …
Sometimes I think my heart is two times too small. Don’t get me wrong, I really do like Christmas. I …
So there’s this myth about the birth of Christ, that it was super-serene and peaceful. “All is calm, all is …
There’s a version of Jesus we spend a lot of time with at Christmas, but there’s a problem with him. …
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Every 7 years, Christmas happens to fall on a Sunday, and people get all frothed up about whether they should …
From Still Still Still by Future of Forestry Light, light, light Let all the earth be light The holy star …
The weeks leading up to Christmas Day are filled with anticipation. In homes around the world, kids are counting down …
I started out as an advent calendar skeptic. My wife came home from the store with a beaten up old …
Christmas celebrates the greatest act of self-humiliation in history. By “humiliation” I don’t mean someone accidentally embarrassing himself but intentionally …
Twas 750… Years before Christmas and all throughout Judah There were idols a-plenty (of Baal, not Buddha) The Assyrian Empire …