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”

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?”