The Magnificat has revolutionary teeth. By David Michaux In many traditions, the pink, and fourth, candle on the advent wreath represents Mary, the mother of Jesus; and the candle is revolutionary. Mary deserves her...
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto My friend's family has a tradition that on someone's birthday, they celebrate their mother. That totally makes sense to me. As momentous as a birthday is, truly it was the mother...
We're overcompensating for the whole manger thing, hoping Jesus won't hold it against us. By Kevin D. Hendricks Christmas has never made much sense to me. It centers on the little baby Jesus, born...
By Alfred Delp Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny....
By Elrena Evans Merry Christmas! I picked your card off the Christmas tree in my church because I have three boys of my own—two older than you and one younger—and I thought they might...
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...
