Tributes to Sharon Gallagher…
by Arthur Aghajanian
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Resurrection does not only apply to the body of Jesus. It is the cosmic pattern of life. In every death there is a transformation, and when suffering leads us to God we are born anew, just as it was with Jesus after his crucifixion. As an eternal process, there is no separation between incarnation, death, and renewal.…
by Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
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George MacDonald (mentor of C.S. Lewis; inspiration of G.K. Chesterton, Madeleine L’Engle, and so many more) loved to celebrate Christmas – and necessarily for him part of that celebration was to pull others into the celebrating. He did this in person by feasting and festivities, charades and theater, story and song; by decorating his children’s walls and caroling with them through the streets; by inviting strangers into his home for all of the above, sometimes in groups of a hundred or more!…
by Christopher Myers
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Advent is a season of hopeful expectation, but also a season of penance and preparation, a season when that madman John the Baptist bursts on the scene to level mountains and raise up valleys, crying out for the world to repent so that paths might be made straight for the One who is our hope to come. Advent means coming; it does not mean arriving.…
by Ruth T. West
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In all honesty, I’m not really sure anymore how to pray from day to day. I know the obvious topics. They are mostly the same in any situation. I pray……
by Salim J. Munayer
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I was about to enter my house when a neighbor stopped me and pointed to my Christmas tree, visible through the window. He said, “Your Christmas tree is offensive to……