If your church follows the liturgical calendar, Sunday will be the last Sunday of the year and is “Christ the King” Sunday. The idea that Christ is King, while biblical and an ancient belief of the church, can be a difficult idea for some of us. We can become confused in a couple of ways. […]
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Living in the Christmas Season
The images of the “Holiday season” are lovely aren’t they? Multi-generation families happy, healthy, and whole. Friends sharing food and good times. People at peace with themselves and with each other. But these images also point out the distance between the way we want our lives to be and the reality that falls so short […]
Putting Christmas where it belongs
It is the end of November and we are deeply into the “holiday season”. Christmas lights and pumpkins have been in the same store aisle. The season that used to begin on the Friday after Thanksgiving has been steadily creeping; first past Thanksgiving, then past Halloween and now into September. Each year I feel at […]
