Dark, Year-End Hymns
What is it about the end of the year that makes us turn to stout and solemn hymns? While the TV shows us people wearing
What is it about the end of the year that makes us turn to stout and solemn hymns? While the TV shows us people wearing

I learned about the recent “elf on a shelf” trend on the day after Thanksgiving, when the plane I was boarding was preparing to take

But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry
Guest blogging for Theresa Latini today is Nkiru Okafor. Sr. M. Nkiruka C. Okafor IHM is a member of the Religious Institute of the Sisters

It’s age. Why not tell it like it is? I wouldn’t be ornery if I were 24 or even 48. I’m not. I’m 65, and

I don’t mean to speed ahead or jump out of order too quickly, baby Jesus just being born and all and no need to rush
A guest post by my partner and fellow minister, Jim Kast-Keat. A poem he wrote reflecting on the gravity of Immanuel – God with us.

On this Christmas Eve day as I prepare for some last-minute mayhem at some stores–and following my being out yesterday to get new tires on
In one of the first entries of Preparing for Christmas, an Advent devotional by Father Richard Rohr, there is a warning about the danger of