Christmas: The Season of Grieving
Christmas is known for being the season of giving, good cheer and peace with all men. It’s where families come together for food, gifts, fellowship and celebration. It’s sparkling lights, Christmas music ...
Of Mice And MIN…ISTERS (Ode to Advent and Axl Rose)
I've heard it said that Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was, and still is, an angry, angry man. I have no reason to doubt it.
There simply is no denying that they literally burst forth into the nation's con...
Taking the SEX out of Sex-mas!
Then one foggy Sex-mas Eve, Victoria came to say: Consumer with your eyes so wide, buy this bra and panties tonight.
Twenty-year-old young women wearing unmentionables stare into the camera saying: “Tell me ...
War on Christmas
And then there are those who rouse our passions about a “War on Christmas”.
I found this tedious last year, and the year before, and the year before…
But this compromise is as old as the Christmas story its...
Occupy the Manger: How God Does Revolution
Occupy the manger. I’m sick of phrases that begin with occupy. But that’s what God did. He occupied a manger in the form of a baby born to a poor pregnant teen whose fiancé believed she was a virgin and refu...
Santa – Our Imaginary Friend
One of the tough decisions that all Christians have to face when we accept Christ is to embrace truth and reject lies. Many of those lies are society’s lies. They are the lies that brought us such much joy as...
All I want for Christmas is the Real Christmas story
It doesn’t seem that much to ask. With all the passion, energy and hype around Christmas, you’d think there would be some interest in refining our focus on what we were really celebrating.
Frenzied shopping,...
A New Year’s Invitation: Bring in 2011 with the Youth of Afghanistan
There’s a part of the Christmas story we don’t always tell the kids or teach in Sunday school. All the Christmas cheer was rudely and abruptly interrupted.
According to the birth narrative told in the Gospel o...
Merry Christmas!
The moment I awoke this morning marked my 75th Christmas. Sometimes it's hard to believe there have been so many. Recalling memories of my childhood mixed with memories of my own two children on Christmas morni...
Is Stephen Colbert a Red Letter Christian?
If you didn't get a chance to see Stephen Colbert talk about Christmas on Comedy Central you missed something special. It's a bit edgy and has somewhat of a political partisan bias, and we Red Letter Christi...