Category: Blog

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Meanwhile . . .

In the second year of the presidency of Donald Trump, while Mike Pence was vice-president and while Theresa May led England and Justin Trudeau led

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Christmas Letters

When December rolls around, I enjoy opening the mailbox to find Christmas cards instead of the usual fliers and bills. In fact, I look forward

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Sore Afraid

Mark Richard once wrote a poignant piece of first-person fiction in The New Yorker entitled “The Birds for Christmas.” In it, the narrator describes a

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Advent in the Twilight

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. —

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Piata’

The story goes that Michelangelo used to come by St. Peter’s Basilica at night to stand there before his sculpture, not because he was so

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Only Stand and Wait

I clicked on an email link this week, not expecting that it would contain video of a house being torn down. It was the house

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Advent Prayer

With the end of the semester–deep in final papers and exams, set about by seemingly a thousand demands–I needed the simplicity of this prayer. Perhaps

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Grace in Barren Places

“In our own lives, too, we all too often deny the grace we’ve been given in barren places…Sooner or later, we must learn to deal

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