Here we are, Christmas Day. How wondrous. Nothing compares! We have been waiting and preparing for the birth of the Christ Child, and His arrival changes us and changes our world, if we let it. During ...

Every year, Christians face the distractions of the busy Christmas season. As Joseph Pronechen wrote recently, we risk being swept up in “secular busyness ... [t]he hustle and bustle of shopping for ...

The barista working the Groundworks coffee shop in Santa Monica is a 20 something-year-old, with brown, curly hair, casual, skateboard-y clothes and black-rimmed Buddy Holly glasses. He is explaining ...

Ponder the meaning of young Jesus' teaching in the temple with The Reverend Amanda Bourne in a reflection for the First Sunday of Christmas. The Reverend Amanda Bourne, Digital Content Manager You are ...

My favorite definition of Christmas comes from the Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx. In one of his homilies, he called Christmas as 'the feast of God’s humanity.' Our God is a God who is ...

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Almost everyone, even many non-believers, agrees that Christmas is a magical day. We dress it up as one, with lights on our windows and decorations on our doorways. The tinsel and the music and all of ...

The other day, I walked home from work in a heavy fog – that is, the fog was in the air, not in my head. What could have been a gloomy walk felt more like a fantasy. The fog should have made it hard ...