“All over the world men and women will meet on December 25th to do what is a very old-fashioned and, if you like, a very Pagan thing—to sing and feast because a God has been born. You are uncertain whether it is more than a myth. Well, if it is, then our last hope is […]
Can you imagine how today’s advertisers would’ve exploited it? How social media would have been abuzz? Visit the hotel where Jesus stayed. Instead of “George Washington slept here,” we’d learn “Jesus Christ slept here.” The comic character Felix Unger in “The Odd Couple,” when trying to convince people to do crazy […]
It’s Christmas morning, and chances are you have a lot going on. The kids are opening presents, and there’s wrapping paper strewn throughout the house. You might have food on the stove or in the oven ready for family to come by later. Or you may have family already at your house. […]
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the […]
The real claim of Christmas, for Christians, is that Truth and Love penetrated the cosmos. Christmas is a warm, loving, and tender season precisely for this reason. That warm fire, or bright sky, or joyful company, is made possible only because that God which ever lives and loves—to which the whole creation moves—entered the creation […]
If you see one of these strange looking bottles the next time you’re at the beach, it’s best to keep walking. The green bottles are said to contain concoctions of hair, herbs, local plants, nails and even bodily fluids. According to KXAN-TV, the practice of witch bottles goes back hundreds of years and “have been […]
It was the power of a single question that drove them to Bethlehem. That single question is the burning question of our time. It is the question that will decide the fate of our nation. No, they did not doubt that Jesus was the Messiah. That was not the question. It was something else entirely. […]
This morning’s Gospel reading is Luke 1:26-38: The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. And coming to her, he said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with […]
Yes, the stable was real and the animals were real, but what were they really and how did they find their way into the Christmas story? What’s not to like about the Christmas story? A long journey, a quaint village, a pregnant mom and a worried dad, a grumpy innkeeper on a dark and stormy […]
Image Credit: PickPik / CC By Holly Abernathy [Special to The Tennessee Conservative] – In the Bible, the book of Matthew in the New Testament tells us the origins of a man named Jesus – Jesus the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, Jesus as God incarnate. While some argue the pagan practices of celebrating the Christmas […]
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