What are you giving up for Advent?
It’s pretty common to hear people, not least Protestants, talk about what they might give up for Lent. Some of them even follow through and
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December 9, 2011
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It’s pretty common to hear people, not least Protestants, talk about what they might give up for Lent. Some of them even follow through and
The mad rush to Christmas has begun. The signs are all around us: blaring Christmas carols, colorful blinking lights, trees and mistletoe, cookies galore, and
I didn’t believe in Santa Claus as a child, and I raised my own children without any focus or emphasis upon Santa either. We weren’t
As you’ll note from my recent Perspectives article, “A Peculiar People,” I’ve been thinking a lot about the dynamics of immigration and how that intersects with
Occupy Boston was just a few weeks old when I trekked downtown to check out the encampment at Dewey Square. MIT professor Noam Chomsky was
I spent this first week of Advent thinking about idolatry. It started with a This American Life podcast on the Penn State disaster, in which
My wife, who’s now retired and therefore been home more often these days than she’s been in the 25 years we’ve lived in this old house,
Recently I’ve been re-reading the novella by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It. It has been nearly fifteen years since I first read it
Shame (noun) a. A painful emotion caused by a strong sense of guilt, embarrassment, unworthiness, or disgrace. b. A great disappointment. What do you regard as most
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