Five Ways to De-Commercialize Christmas
DEC 25, 2013 | BY: CHRISTIAN PIATT -- We’ve created a Christmas monster: a grotesque assemblage of pagan, Christian and capitalist...
Is It Possible to Celebrate Christmas and the Birth of Jesus on the Same Day?
DEC 18, 2013 | BY: JON HUCKINS -- There is certainly a warm, nostalgic feeling about the Christmas season. Social media fills up with...
Missing the Message
DEC 17, 2013 | BY: KATHY VESTAL -- The message of the baby in the manger is one of spreading love, mending the broken, comforting...
Les Misérables: Valjean or Javert?
BY: KATELIN HANSEN -- The story of Les Misérables follows Jean Valjean who, having spent 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread...
Incarnation – Can Anything Good Come from a Crisis Pregnancy?
BY: MORF MORFORD -- Can anything good come out of Nazareth? The Gospels ask. Can anything come out of a crisis pregnancy...
Goodbye Santa! Hello St. Nick! Or, how many slaves work for you?
BY: MARTY TROYER -- There are more slaves in the world today than at any other time in human history. On December...
Bethlehem: Then and Now
BY: REV. DR. MITRI RAHEB -- Bethlehem has become almost a mythological place: Children imagine it with a...
If You Wanna Get to Heaven, You Might Wanna Listen to the Ozark Mountain Daredevils (Ode to Dale and Mary)
Dale and I became fast friends a few years ago because of our love for the music of that Missouri band of rural hippie farmers known as the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Their song “Beauty in the River” is one of ...
Noting a Woman’s Body
God knows women’s bodies always have a way of getting our attention. This is not breaking news. But in the past two weeks two storylines have been breaking out and gaining traction on the female body, and...
Love Comes to Town
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word became flesh and lived among us (John 1:1-2, 14a).
Or, as Eugene Peterson puts it, "The Word became flesh and ...