Do you have your nativity scene up? Sometimes it’s called a crèche, a manger scene, a Christmas crib, or Christ’s nursery. Either way, it is the depiction…… Read more “Why Blue?”

Among the many ornaments decorating Christmas trees, many people have a “Christmas pickle.”  It isn’t an actual pickle, but it is a traditional, glass ornament shaped like…… Read more “The Christmas Pickle”

Since this pandemic began, we have been in a season of Advent.  We’ve been in a posture of waiting, hoping, anticipating, and enduring.   For nearly two years…… Read more “The Not-Yet-Ness of Advent”

Advent is upon us this coming Sunday and if there is one person who is the poster child for Advent it is John the Baptist.   But this…… Read more “Really, John?”

I always thought that the Pilgrims who arrived in Plymouth were the first Europeans to disembark in what is now New England.  It turns out that Native…… Read more “Thanksgiving Context”