Today is Epiphany, the day the Western churches celebrate the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem and the Eastern churches commemorate Christ’s baptism....
The Significance of Epiphany
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
In American culture, we think of the Christmas season as the time leading up to Christmas. Christmas celebrations frequently last only a few days,...
Christmas Paradoxes
The infinite became finite, the eternal and supratemporal entered time and became subject to its conditions, the immutable became mutable, the...
Victorian and Modern Advent and Christmas Traditions
In the previous post, I looked at two Advent and Christmas traditions with roots in the Middle Ages, crèches and caroling. There are others, of...
Medieval Advent and Christmas Traditions
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...
The Meaning in Cathedrals
When I got the news about the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris back in 2019, I felt much the same way I did on 9/11. I lived for a time in...
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...
Woke History on the Left and Right
We should wrestle with the past, but ultimately our allegiance is with Christ our King.
An Election Post Mortem
The election is all but over. Trump won in a landslide, Republicans took the Senate, and probably the House (that’s still up for grabs for some...
Church and State
How Christianity invented the conflict between church and state
Yes, Vote, but Resist the Political Illusion
Christian discipleship should offer the way forward for our country.
A Prayer for Election Day
No matter who wins, apart from God’s intervention, the slide into evil will continue.
The State of Religious Freedom
Religious liberty is in a precarious position and under constant threat.