Advent is my favorite season of the church year. It makes me feel connected to the past in ways that other times of the year do not. As a historian...
Medieval Advent and Christmas Traditions
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Sword & Staff Multiverse: Christmas and Paganism with Glenn Sunshine
Glenn Sunshine of the Theology Pugcast and Every Square Inch Ministries joins Coleman to talk about the history of Christmas and its relationship to...
Advent and the Many Comings of Christ
For My Non-Liturgical Friends: A Quick Introduction to the Church Year The church year takes us on a liturgical journey through the story of our...
Now Thank We All Our God
In honor of Thanksgiving, today's post is a chapter from 32 Christians who Changed their World about Martin...
Waiting on the Word
I never really understood poetry. My English classes in elementary school and high school covered it a bit, and I had a year of courses on epic...
Samhain and Halloween
At about this time of year, we regularly see lots of arguments about why Christians shouldn’t celebrate Halloween. Some say that it’s a...
Christ and the Feasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoQ6M8uYLOc The Feasts of the Old Testament are intimately connected to key events in Jesus' life and the founding...
The Ascension
The Ascension of Christ is often ignored by Christians, who frequently focus on Easter and...
A Good Friday Poem
For Good Friday, I am sharing a poem written by my daughter, Elizabeth Sunshine Koroma. It's my favorite Good Friday poem and I think it is...
Maundy Thursday
Join Dr. Sunshine for some often overlooked themes from the Last Supper. https://youtu.be/i9d8bJ42kG4
Passover and Holy Week
A discussion of the apparent differences in the date of Passover during Holy week in the Synoptic...
History and Practices of Lent
A summary of the history of Lent and the historical practices associated with it, along with suggestions...
Advent through the Ages: The O Antiphons
As Christmas approaches, I always find myself connecting to the past, both my family’s history and beyond that to the more distant history of the...
Does Christmas Have Pagan Roots?
Every year at Christmas time we hear arguments that our Christmas celebrations are little more than warmed over paganism. We hear that the date was...
Death at Christmas
Hope in the Face of Darkness Back in 2012, a friend of mine who was a pastor in Hartford, Connecticut, asked me to preach at his church. I was...