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A little boy’s father had been killed in the Iraq War before the boy had ever known him. All he had was a picture of his father, which was placed on an end table in the living room right under the light. One day he said to his mother: “I… To access this post,...
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When Mary visited Elizabeth’s home in the Judean hills, it was a 70 mile trip on roads filled with residents and transients, bandits and soldiers. But this Jordan road also passed some towns famous in Israelite history: Shechem, where Abram and Sarai built an altar....
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“Dear God, make calm the waves in this heart, make still that storm. Be calm, my soul, that God may rest in you. God’s peace wash over you. Dear God, grant us peace, peace that the whole world cannot wash away.” Soren Kierkegaard, A Book of Uncommon Prayer (2007)....
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“Let me not wrap, stack, box, bag, tie, gag, bundle, seal, keep Christmas. Christmas kept is liable to mold. Let me give Christmas away, unwrapped by exuberant armfuls. Let me share, dance, live Christmas unpretentiously, merrily, responsibly with overflowing hands,...
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Incarnation The Surprising Overlap of Heaven & Earth by William H. Willimon Christmas is a crazy, cluttered and cramped season for most of us. Looking back at Advent, we may need to admit that the time we had hoped to spend in quiet meditation on the meaning of...
