On Surviving January: Lessons from Denmark, Japan, and Jesus
On whom can we pin the blame for January, I wonder? It doesn't seem quite fair to blame Janus, the God of beginnings and transitions, after whom the month is named, for this month's long misery. Although, the pressure to ...
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What the Apostle Paul Said About Prostitutes, Marriage, and Sex
This originially appeared on OnFaith.“All things are lawful for me,” may have been a slogan of some Christians in Corinth, who assumed that because of the grace of God they found in Jesus, they could do pretty much whatever the ...
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Praying Differently
“For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.”These words, the doxology, always divide congregants at weddings and funerals as some Christians (like Episcopalians) conclude the Lord’s Prayer this way, while other Chris ...
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Little Celebrations on Regular Days
Is there any more melancholy task than taking down Christmas decorations? Last Friday, as I put ornaments back in their boxes, unstrung lights, and vacuumed everywhere (those evergreen needles travel surprisingly far!), I wondered why this chore makes me feel ...
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2014 in Christianity: A Year in Review
Originally posted to OnFaithOne of my favorite traditions on New Year’s Eve is to read Dave Barry’s “Year in Review,” not just for comedic value, but for the sake of remembering where we’ve been for the last twelve mo ...
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On Breathing and the Incarnation
Listen to this sermonGood morning,Last Saturday the Hartford Catholic Worker hosted our annual Christmas party for the kids we live and work with in north Hartford. Our rented school bus led a caravan that brought about 75 kids down to ...
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Is There a Right Way to Celebrate Christmas?
Christmas. It's such a mixed bag, isn't it?
© 2011 Kevin Dooley, Flickr | CC-BY | via WylioI'm an unapologetic lover of all things Christmas. I love choosing just the right gifts for my kids, stacking bins of homemade cookies on the back porch, ...
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An entire pack of Lifesavers
My mother is never heavy-handed about how financially stretched her parents were when she was a child, though a few stories do come to mind. One of our family’s favorite stories, which we tell tongue-in-cheek, is of when my g ...
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All Good Things (& Christmas Trees) Must Come to an End
The sight of a Christmas tree strapped onto a car roof awakens all kinds of anticipation for me; at this time of year, even the mind-numbing routine of driving my kids around is made delightful by the sight of lighted ...
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The Language of the Unheard
“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These c ...
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