‘You can’t say “I love you” ironically’: Nashville and the new earnestness
David Dark has seen into something emerging out of popular culture – the end of this age of bitter irony.
David Dark has seen into something emerging out of popular culture – the end of this age of bitter irony.
Small-community churches have seen such slippage that many are now on the verge of extinction. In the face of that threat, and confronting questions about closing or consolidating, some are fighting to retain their place.
Sacred Madonna and Child
by Janet McKenzie
Here in the U.S., we are accustomed to all manner of Christmas displays, from gentle creche exhibits to gaudy Christmas lights set to blink in
This is a season of renewal within ourselves for the purposes of a new earth and stronger bonds with one other.
As when our ship is near shore and cities and ports pass in view before us that on the open sea vanish and leave nothing to fix the eye on, so the Evangelist here takes us with him in his flight above the created world leaving the eye to gaze upon emptiness and an unlimited expanse. . . .
Any historical basis for the wise men visiting or the slaughtering of male children in Bethlehem seems relatively unimportant for twenty-first century Christianity. Children are precious and vulnerable. Too many children are hungry, sick, homeless, abused, and unloved. Children die every day whose lives we could save for just pennies.