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December 28, Christmas 1A (Matthew 2:13-23)
2+ hour, 33+ min ago December 28, Christmas 1A (Matthew 2:13-23) While the little Lord Jesus was asleep on the hay, children were rousted from their beds, wrenched from their parent's arms, and executed by Herod's henchmen. Somewhere amid the cattle lowing and the angels singing is heard…...
All nativity scenes are political
2+ day, 18+ hour ago All nativity scenes are political For Fox News host Sean Hannity, the Lake Street Church nativity scene was "horrifying" and "blasphemous." The ICE director himself called the St. Susanna's scene a "dangerous" incitement to violence. St. Susanna's was even denounced…...
God in the particular (Luke 2:1-20)
3+ day, 1+ hour ago I bring you good news," says the angel to the shepherds. In Greek, the second-person pronoun here is plural; it has the sense of all y'all." But this plural personal pronoun is also in the dative case. So the announcement…...
Playing to lose, a column by Peter Marty
3+ day, 2+ hour ago I witnessed the sports betting empire ruin one man's life. It's coming for millions more. For the estimated 60 percent of avid sports fans who now engage in betting, the drama of a live, unscripted athletic performance is apparently not enough…...
Carpenter’s Lullaby
3+ day, 2+ hour ago I consider Saint Joseph the special patron of all thoseforced to leave their native lands because of war,persecution and poverty. "Pope Francis, Patris Corde Sleep, child, in this manger rude and smallThe world will quickly claim youSoon you will…...
December 24 and 25, Nativity A (Luke 2:1–14 (15-20)
4+ day, 2+ hour ago December 24 and 25, Nativity A (Luke 2:114 (15-20) Maybe it's all those cr'ches on front lawns, or maybe it's due to illustrated children's Bibles, but I always pictured Mary and Joseph arriving at an inn late at night: the sky inky black, the…...
A lethal article of faith
4+ day, 2+ hour ago A lethal article of faith Veteran journalist William Kole sets out to understand White evangelical devotion to the Second Amendment. The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms I do not know. I fear that there is too much…...
Australia's Jewish community is defined by Holocaust survivors, Yiddishkeit, and immigrants
4+ day, 2+ hour ago An attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday killed 15 people and left Jewish communities reeling worldwide. The violence has also drawn attention to the resilience of Australia's distinctive Jewish community, shaped by the world's largest…...
PCUSA's Ghost Ranch announces new conservation partnership
4+ day, 14+ hour ago The National Ghost Ranch Foundation and the Presbyterian Foundation jointly announced plans to preserve the landscapes and vistas made famous by artist Georgia O'Keeffe through a new partnership with the State of New Mexico and the New Mexico Land Conservancy....
The poverty of gossip
5+ day, 2+ hour ago The poverty of gossip It's not just that it's sadistic. It also lacks aesthetic or psychological imagination. Gossip falls into this second category. What is it? When are we doing it? Is it just a hostile description of ordinary conversation?...