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According to Church tradition, Christmas doesn’t end when December 25th ends. Rather, that’s when Advent ends and Christmas begins. So I’ma keep talking about Christmas-y crap until I get bored with it. Deal. As I highlight in the latest episode of Misfit Faith, the union of heaven and earth, divinity and humanity, that we celebrate […]
Anyone who came up in the ’80s will remember Yoda telling Luke Skywalker, “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” But what if he was wrong? What if it’s both? I used to get a kick out of telling people that I’m “religious but not spiritual,” mostly because it confused them. But there was […]
By Christian In the United States, Christmas is the only overtly religious federal holiday. No other religion’s holy day gets this kind of preferential treatment. It’s a good thing to keep in mind as you read on. For Christians, it’s a time to celebrate the incarnation of God in human flesh (we’ll call this Group […]
My dear friends, this is nothing short of a call to arms. While I always feel very keenly the degree to which I, a middle-class white male, am ever the victim of marginalization and attack, it is during this time of year, xmastime, that the assault on the American way of life is most pronounced. […]