
Welcoming Life in the New Year
This Christmas break I finally watched the movie Inside Out. I imagine this movie is old news for most readers, but I have a toddler and

This Christmas break I finally watched the movie Inside Out. I imagine this movie is old news for most readers, but I have a toddler and

Jennifer Holberg is away today, stuck in an airport or snowbank somewhere. We welcome back Twelve Hall-of-Famer, Jeff Munroe. Jeff is the Vice President of

Christmas—so much to mock, so little time. For most of December, I carry that outlook. Now, in these quiet, unhurried days of Christmastide, my cynicism

by Brian Keepers When our oldest daughter Emma was a toddler, we bought a Fisher-Price Nativity Set. Every year we’d pull it out and set

For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty

If the joy of Christmas ever breaks through the frenzy of event-going and present-wrangling and (for me) end-of-semester grading, it happens through music. This year,

She holds this single dream. She remembers life in Amherst, before her husband caught a madman’s urge to go west and start a new life
What do you believe about Christmas? I mean in your core, your heart, soul, the marrow of your being, what does Christmas mean to

If you were to ask me “Jes, tell me about a life-changing experience you have had?,” one of the first stories that comes to my