Why is it people want a Christmas they’ll never forget and a New Year’s they’ll never remember? To access this post, you must purchase Standard Membership, Standard Membership - Yearly, Video Membership, Video Membership - Yearly, Coaching Membership, Coaching...
To prove there is a little of “Scrooge” in all of us, here is some of Charles Dickens’ earliest writing, in the form of a letter to the editor of the Athenaeum on 07 January 1932. Dickens was obviously fed up with the cold and snow: Perhaps, somebody...
Two Christmas Eve Benedictions: 1) I love roads. Something about horizons and unknowns, boundaries and possibilities. But the best road ever made was the road to Bethlehem. 2) On this night, O Holy Night, “I kiss my hand to the stars” (poet Gerard Manley Hopkins)....
From the Jewish Communication Network, here are the Top 10 Reasons why Hanukkah is better than Christmas: 10) No roof damage from reindeer 9) Never a silent night when you’re with your Jewish loved ones. 8) If you give a bad gift, you have seven more days to...
Here is Christmas from the vantage point of English domestic farm life in the 16th century. It is called “Description of the Feast of the Birth of Christ, commonly called Christmas:” Of Christ commeth Christmas, the name with the feast, a time full of...
“Eugene Petersen has a poem in which he calls this leap in the womb a dance to ‘worldbeat of the womb’s music.’ . . . Beat in our heart and soul and womb, O God. Beat out the rhythm of calm and safety and salvation. Let us all hear the… To access this post, you...
