Christmas, for the Western church, is over. (Happy Christmas to Orthodox readers!) The Christmas stories are full of signs and so I’ve been thinking about signs- the ways God makes God’s self and God’s desires known to us. Sometimes God makes a “statement”. Pillars of fire. Parting seas. Obvious signs that we should pay attention. […]
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Mary: Tough and Feisty
For protestants, Advent and Christmas are, in all honesty, the only time of the year we spend any time thinking about Mary. Often the words, meek, mild, obedient, and submissive, are used to describe her. People talk about how young Mary is. All those words paint a particular picture of Mary. But that’s not the […]
