By Kristyn Komarnicki We love movies about clever heists, where high-tech and highly organized thieves outwit security systems and break into “uncrackable” safes. We thrill to scenes of Cary Grant scaling rooftops in Hitchcock’s...
By Makoto Fujimura A teenage girl claims an angel told her she’d have a virgin birth. Her fiancé is hesitant to believe her. She gives birth in a stable. The people who come to visit...
By Katelyn Durst This year began with tears dark nights where there was no teapot whistling on the stove to keep us warm. Many of us had hopes and dreams but they...
By Allison Duncan Cute middle school kids filed onto the risers for the charter school holiday concert. Boys with hair slicked back, girls with Mom’s bright pink lipstick a bit clumsily applied. Some surveyed...
By Maryada Vallet She walks the dusty trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates in pain. Her womb, distended in the eighth month of pregnancy, slows her down, yet also gives her...
By Drew Jackson After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram...
By J. Mark Bowers I sat in an Advent Bible study, listening for the rest of the song. The passage was the Magnificat in Luke 1. We opened the Scriptures and read Mary’s familiar...
By Elrena Evans Merry Christmas! I picked your card off the Christmas tree in my church because I have a little boy of my own who is just your age, and I thought he...
By Churches for Middle East Peace In him was life, and that life was the light of the people. The light shines in darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ John 1:4-5...
By Sarah Are God of yesterday, and God of the here and now. My neighbors say they are hungry. And you say, Love your neighbor as yourself. My neighbors say they are tired. And...
