Category: Holiday Season

Ever noticed how many Christmas songs focus on Jesus being quiet?  Our most traditional hymns seem to be enamored with describing a silent baby – and little else. 

Everyone likes charity and giving to others, but it’s not always as easy as it sounds.  Which charity should you support, and how much should you give?  A

Andrew Peterson has some great Christmas music, available here. The song “So Long, Moses” has made me weep. It puts Christmas—and life and history—in perspective. “So Long, Moses”

I’ve written a lot about this topic in the past, so I’ll keep this short, and then I’ll link to my previous posts. The early church celebrated mass

I’m sure that the giant stack of papers I need to grade accounts for my breaking my Thinking Through Christianity silence today, but that’s all right — the

When I think of Christmas, the first things that come to mind are images of green, laurel decorations, pumpkin-spiced coffee, and wrapped presents.  I know that it’s about

 Last week, after discussing the non-Pagan roots of Christmas, I got this comment on that blog entry: There is no evidence that Jesus was born on Dec. 25

Each holiday season, a few cynics decry the holiday of Christmas because they have been told that it’s a Pagan holiday. Everything from Christmas trees to the very

Each year, a few people tell me that they don’t like the commercialism of the holidays. They are entitled to that, but a few will take it even