Santa or God or Saint Nicholas
If you’ve never observed the Feast of Saint Nicholas before, here’s my pitch to start today. First though, let’s hear […]
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Christmas
Christmas Gift Guide: Faith-Based Gifts to Celebrate the Season
If you scroll Instagram or browse lifestyle videos on YouTube around this time of year, it is easy to find
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God’s Instrument of Abundant Life
When looking at a baby, we don’t generally wonder how they will die.
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Beautiful Blue Christmas
I have long loved Darryl Worley’s song ‘Awful Beautiful Life’ that’s linked above. It came out around the time I graduated from college and it reminds me that life is crazy, tragic, and magic.
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Powering Down the Christmas Machine
I will not start packing up the decorations today.
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Christmas Gifts
My younger daughter was being particular for Christmas: Mandarin skin cream from Aesop, a small facial boutique shop on Lido Isle.
The God of Light, of Love
John, for me, is the apostle of light, the apostle who shines the light on the true nature of our God and our Lord and Savior.
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Saints
Observing the Feast of Saint Stephen by Doing
I first learned of Stephen, as I suspect many of us do, via Wenceslas and his walk over deep, crisp, and even snow. In that lovely song, Stephen serves largely as the backdrop for an allegory about kingship.
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Come and worship….
Worship has been much on my mind recently, not necessarily the liturgy or the music or whether to be online or in person for Christmas services, but mostly I’ve been pondering the innate human need to worship, and its various manifestations.
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Longing for God and Something Familiar in Advent
As if on cue, every second Sunday of Advent my husband and I get into an argument about the correct type of lights to hang in order to welcome baby Jesus, the incarnate God, into the world.
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