Pre-Nativity: December 23
There had to be a star involved, stars have ever had that two-edged tendency toward portending, if given half a chance. Last evening’s light-strewn firmament, spread wide above my own quotidian bed...
View ArticleTime to be Careful
Since you never know just when, and where and how it might be manifest. Watch children and the rich in years, those winter birds that wait with us through bitter months. Renew the flame of quiet...
View ArticleNunc Dimittis
Well met, bright death! My search is at its end, these lingering years of pacing the tight streets and crooked alleyways, limping the temple precinct like a daily beggar, peering, ever gazing under...
View ArticleGod With Skin On: Cycle C Sermons for Advent/Christmas/Epiphany
by Susan R. Andrews CSS Publishing, Lima, Ohio. 164 pages Susan Andrews is a skilled preacher who knows how to shape theology in the form of a sermon. In this collection of sermons from the Gospel of...
View ArticleSometimes there’s God so quickly
There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is...
View ArticleI have a problem with elves
by Julie Coffman Hester I have a problem with elves. Apart from Will Ferrell in the movie “Elf,” and Hermey the dentist in the Rudolph movie, I could do without them. My last run-in with an elf was at...
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