Let’s open up the gift of hope. With God’s other graces, it already lives in you. Reach into your spiritual closet. Take it out. Try it on. Get comfortable with it. Take it for a test drive. Share it with the family. Show it to the neighbors. Ask God to keep hope fresh in you every day.
The hardships of the year helped this writer and her family to deepen their relationship with Jesus and Advent; leading to her writing a brutally honest Christmas letter.
According to National Geographic, Venus and Jupiter are closer this week than they’ve been in more than 10 years; last night and tonight they will
Merry Christmas from John, David, Liz, Jennifer, Jon, Rosalind, Martin, Ann, Andrew, Kate, Anne & Weston to all of you
The Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Provisional Bishop of Bethlehem, has this Christmas message appearing in The Morning Call. An excerpt:
Writing on Medium, Larry Wallace shares a long-form piece on the first Christmas-themed hip-hop single, and the third hip-hop song released on a label, Kurtis
A recent survey in Britain showed that most people didn’t really know the biblical nativity story. Instead, it showed that their knowledge of the Nativity
From 2012, a short video by the late Bishop of Massachusetts, Tom Shaw, who walks the streets and wonders aloud what the church does to
In what is admittedly an unpopular opinion, the website xoJane.com published an opinion piece titled “Christmas should not be a National Holiday.” It’s made its way
I put the old glass ornaments up high, but obviously not high enough. As I heard the smash of glass scattering into the mix of fir needles and dust bunnies, I thought, “Ahhh – now it is Christmas.” Sweeping up the fuchsia colored shards and needles so we don’t have to give the vacuum cleaner hose one more tracheotomy, I found that I had come to a new place about Christmas.