It’s a tantalizing dream, this idea that peace might someday break out all over the globe. More than any other time of the year, it…
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Category: Holiday
Something about this time of year contrasts so deeply our hopes and fears. Joy and sorrow make for odd bedfellows around the Christmas tree. For…
“Do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” asked two of Jesus’ newly appointed followers. He was heading to Jerusalem…
“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” is one of my all-time favorite Christmas carols. And not just for Felix Mendelssohn’s brilliant score. The lyrics, penned by…
We moderns have no sense of history. We think Jesus came and, presto, his followers took over the world. No time flat. There was no…