Private and Personal?
In the midst of this Advent Season when radio stations and mall Muzak are willing to cut loose with songs that celebrate Jesus as the
In the midst of this Advent Season when radio stations and mall Muzak are willing to cut loose with songs that celebrate Jesus as the
We light the third advent candle – the curiously pink candle – for the shepherds and the quality of joy. Friends from Europe were visiting
To startle man, God becomes for an instant a blasphemer; one might almost say that God becomes for an instant an atheist. He unrolls before
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
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