Christmas

Why do we celebrate Christmas?

Why was Jesus born?

Paying Notice

The wonder of Christmas is not only that God turns his face to look upon a young peasant girl but also upon you and me. Surely, too, this is the greatest gift we can give each other.

Why Does Christmas Matter?

Jesus didn’t really start a movement as much as he was the movement. He was God making the first move. He was moving and opening up the meaning of time and history and showing and explaining that God had to move toward us before we could move toward God.

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Everyone Believes in a Virgin Birth

Why is the virgin birth often the most problematic miracle to accept? Why is it more troubling than the thought of Jesus walking on water? Or multiplying the loaves?

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Where God Is

In a certain town there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdeitch by name. He lived in a small basement room whose one window...

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Waiting for Hope

In the process of moving and reorganizing some bookshelves in the middle of October, I recovered something long out of...

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A Cynical Christmas

By and large, the cultural trend marks a growing distrust and rejection of story and meaning and a general embrace of cynicism.

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Nativity Scenes

A general position on December birthdays (particularly for those of us who hold them) seems to be that its proprietors...

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Seeing in the Dark

There is something comforting about the many characters in the Christian story of which we know very little. There was more to the story of the woman who knew that if she could...

Insight for the Blind

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) popularized the concept of "a paradigm shift" in the realm of scientific thought. While many of us may not be familiar...

Christmas Continued

The Christmas season as most of us know it has drawn to a close. All the preparations and fanfare of Christmas fade into the calendar of another year. But the church calendar, a...

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