
Unsettling Advent 2025, Day 21
We should all be concerned about government officials anointing themselves as the arbiters of what a Nativity scene should look like. Sadly, too many Christians today willingly side with Herod.

We should all be concerned about government officials anointing themselves as the arbiters of what a Nativity scene should look like. Sadly, too many Christians today willingly side with Herod.

History teaches that civilizations do not fall overnight They erode when they forget who they are

Christmas was not a quaint, quiet affair It was an invasion

While I am likewise concerned about young women s poor voting patterns, Partridge s proposal is lazy, provocative, and politically illiterate

It must have seemed hopeless in first-century Palestine for plenty of people, but that is where the light of the world chooses to be born. God is still coming into being, even amidst the cruelty of ICE and the terror of state violence.

A difficult pregnancy made it feel like darkness was closing in. But still, there was a tiny burning ember of hope that kept glowing. In the midst of actual and metaphoric scar tissue from years of losses, something miraculous happened.

The flame of freedom still burns brightly and has lost none of its power to inspire human hearts and spirits

The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas carols?

My wife and I earn about 11,000 month combined, but with lots of student loan debt, our money is gone by the end of the month I m super frustrated that we are unable to save or get ahead Something s

The oft forgotten are the ones He remembers forever And that, dear reader, includes you