The Notable Absence of Birth in Christmas
If we cannot talk honestly about the truth of birth, whether Jesus’ or any other baby’s, and if we continue to erase and dismiss the
If we cannot talk honestly about the truth of birth, whether Jesus’ or any other baby’s, and if we continue to erase and dismiss the
I vaguely knew what Advent was. When I was a child my family had a fun little Advent calendar. My own children always looked forward
Every December, I imagine missionaries breaking river ice below a midnight moon in Switzerland, making space in the frozen current for my great-great-grandmother to push
Simply having unnamed female figurines has allowed [my daughter] to play with the story of the nativity in new ways.
Several years ago, I began dreading the holiday season. Bit by bit, some of my holiday joy has started to come back. Here’s my one
The Christmas story could be considered as a series of invitations from God to humans to come to Christ.
Each year I look forward to the ritual of setting out various handmade nativity sets. The story is a universal one, that of bringing the
When I got to the part where Mary was told to name her child “Jesus,” my kid gasped. “What?” she said in complete disbelief, “Mary
In this lesson, we will focus on Mary, mother of Christ. Who was she? What can we learn from her? How can modern men and
These are the gifts I would give us, and this is the way I would gift them. Jezebel served a goddess, one the Israelites also
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