We’ve lost the art of blessing.  Blessing is an important way to remember the holiness of a place or a time or a person.  It is a…… Read more “A New Year’s Blessing”

When you were a kid, what was your favorite Christmas TV special?  Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer? The Night the Animals Talked? Frosty the Snowman? Santa Claus…… Read more “Better than a TV Special”

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”