Blog A Son of a Shepherd and Joy We light the third advent candle – the curiously pink candle – for the shepherds and the quality of joy.…Jeff MunroeDecember 12, 2011
Blog The Tree of Life To startle man, God becomes for an instant a blasphemer; one might almost say that God becomes for an instant…Jason LiefDecember 10, 2011
Blog 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…The 12 EditorDecember 9, 2011
Blog Lament in Advent: Festivus is not Just for the Rest of Us The mad rush to Christmas has begun. The signs are all around us: blaring Christmas carols, colorful blinking lights, trees…The 12 EditorDecember 8, 2011
Blog Nicholas I didn’t believe in Santa Claus as a child, and I raised my own children without any focus or emphasis…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 6, 2011
Blog Learning to be Reformed from a Jewish Novelist As you'll note from my recent Perspectives article, "A Peculiar People," I've been thinking a lot about the dynamics of immigration…James K.A SmithDecember 6, 2011
Blog an evening at Occupy Boston… Occupy Boston was just a few weeks old when I trekked downtown to check out the encampment at Dewey Square.…Jessica BrattDecember 5, 2011
Blog Little Pagans I spent this first week of Advent thinking about idolatry. It started with a This American Life podcast on the…Debra RienstraDecember 3, 2011
Blog This old house My wife, who's now retired and therefore been home more often these days than she's been in the 25 years we've…James C. SchaapDecember 2, 2011
Blog “grace comes by art and art does not come easy” Recently I’ve been re-reading the novella by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It. It has been nearly fifteen years…Thomas GoodhartDecember 2, 2011