The last candle lit before Christmas Eve is the candle of love.
Love is one of those words that loses meaning far too quickly. We love wives and we love video games. To top it off, it sounds like a weak word. What’s the opposite of a badass? …A really loving person?
We don’t give power [...]
This is one of the most emotive Christmas (-y) Songs out there.
She was his girl; he was her boyfriend
She be his wife; take him as her husband
A surprise on the way, any day, any day
One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy
The wise men came three made their way
To shower him with love
While he lay in [...]
Christmases in my late teens are some of my fondest feelings of my entire life.
I feel odd talking about this time in life because I’ll end up talking about kittens, Rice Krispies, Care Bears, and babies to get my point across. That warm feeling that is far too rare in life is the only other [...]
The King has come.
The King, who came through a young, obedient girl. The King, who came under the care of a socially-scorned couple. The King, who came from the town of the old king, under the oppression of many evil kings. The King, who brought outcast shepherds and foreign powers to witness your birth and [...]
Since coming to grips in my biblical studies with the implication of what a Jewish Messiah was to do and what they were to look like, and how Jesus both fulfilled and changed it, this has come to be one of my favourite Christmas carols.
In the 1st Century, The Jews had been in exile for [...]
Sufjan Stevens, Put the Lights on the Tree
Put the lights on the tree
(Put them on the tree)
Put the ribbon on the wreath
(Put it on the wreath)
Call your grandma on the phone
(Call her on the phone)
If she’s living all alone
(If she’s all alone)
Tell her Jesus Christ is here
(Tell her He is here)
Tell her she has none [...]
Rudy, by the Be Good Tanyas:
Rudy lives on the borderline
Between civilisation and basic survival
The summertime treats him fairly well
But the wintertime is a bitter cold rival
It’s wintertime now in Georgetown
And the streets come alive with the Christmas lights
And Rudy sleeps on the warm air grate
With a newspaper blanket
On December nights.
Deck the halls,
Rudolph the red-nosed wino [...]
In an ongoing effort to avoid work that would actually go towards, say, a B.A. in Religious Studies, I’m going to start my Advent 08 talks with one that comes up amongst the newly married, like myself – The need for compromise and the joining of two traditions into a new tradition.
As Andy Crouch puts [...]
I don’t know where Dave comes up with his ideas, but they sure are funny:
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I really love Christmas. Unlike many of my Christmas-loving friends, however, I try to be really strict on when I start decorating/celebrating – I like to start with Advent, the first event of the Church’s liturgical Calendar.
Liturgical calendar?
We have one of those?
For those of us outside of the mainline churches (which is most of you [...]