Christmas in Kazakhstan
The rough exterior of the small barn / mud brick and straw roof / inside the warmth of animal bodies / visible and damp
Christmas
Gifts at My Back Door
Three boys leaving the best bits they find in the natural world bless and reveal God's presence on earth.
Christ Sighting: Advent
In these last days of Advent, the presence of Christ comes nearer and nearer. Angela Alaimo O'Donnell imagines him, hungry, walking the streets of her village.
Born
"My nephew’s arrival gave birth to something new in my brother. . . and I am born again each moment I witness the coming of God."
Fear in Advent
In the midst of so many fears, maybe this Advent we need not push those fears away but, in looking at them, we can let them break us open so love can be born in us in a new way.
Prayer for Light in Darkness
In this time between the darkest day of the year and the birth of Christ our Light, we offer prayers for a world filled with the light of justice and truth.
The Baby Dinosaur at the Manger, Or: The Incarnation is for Everybody
A plastic green dinosaur in a manger scene is weird, but the uncontainable creator of the universe, held by his human mother, is really as weird as it gets.
What May We Hope For?
As the 13th century Dominican monk Meister Eckhart provocatively asked: “What good is it for me that Christ was born a thousand years ago in Bethlehem?”
Full of Grace
"But who’s so certain as to speak of God? / Who among us has held Great Mystery?"
The Midwest Winter as Spiritual Desert
In the midst of the hardest months of winter, ones marked with grief and emptiness, how can we trust that God is with us?
