Faith, Fiction, Friends

After Luke 2:10-14   The presence is blinding, a great light, not the greatest light but a lesser light, still blinding in radiance, proclai...

After Luke 2:10-14   In the worst of times, as in the best of times, we have hope, always we have hope. We can bring to mind the reason: the...

After Matthew 2:10-14 Born this day a child in the light a child of the light a child who is the light in the city of Dav...

After Matthew 2:1-15 History pivoted in their small town in the hills, down the road from one capital and even farther fr...

After I John 3:1-8 A strange birth, a strange calling, this, a stranger destiny, born to destroy the work of evil, the edif...

In the days after the world became new, the heavens cracked open In the days after the change happened, time shifted; reality...

A different choir: donkey brays cattle low sheep bleat wood creaks out in the fields the choir sings in holy terror ...

The first hands which touch me are the rough, calloused warn hands of the carpenter, hands that first hold me before he gives me to my m...

A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to a talk by Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas Box and many other popular books, including ...

One of my favorite movies about the birth of Christ is The Nativity Story , released in 2006. One of the reasons is that it has more abou...

The season of darkness and warmth is ending, the darkness wet; the warmth moist. It has been an odd sensation to be swimming while connecte...

The summons was wordless. I knew, simply. I journeyed to complete, with the others, what we had been commanded to do. I was not to be...

They call me many things. King, but I rule over nothing, not even my wife. Magician, but I make no magic. Wise man, but the more I le...

I am half-asleep. The night is cold. I’ve pulled my cloak closely, moth-eaten thing that it is, and sit as close of the fire as I can witho...

Yes, I remember them. And don’t look at me that way. You have no idea what it was like. Do you know how many people I had already had to tu...