HoMY 83: Joy to the World
During Advent this year I’m breaking with Advent convention and posting Christmas carols as part of my regular Sunday series, Then Sings My Soul: The Hymns of My Youth. This follows instead the habit...
View ArticleRenovation & Reconstruction: Ecclesiological Parallels
Getting the kids a Wii for Christmas seemed innocuous enough. This observation, of course, is filled with foreboding. Some friends recently purchased a 47″ flat-panel television and graciously gave us...
View ArticleAn Incarnational Christmas
“Incarnational” is of course that other word for missional, and the theory behind it. So as I was considering this idea, it occured to me that Christmas is perhaps the chief holiday for missional folk...
View ArticleHoMY 84: Silent Night
Today begins the last week of Advent, and therefore marks our last Sunday before Christmas. During the past few weeks, I’ve been populating our Advent space with Christmas carols, as the church where...
View ArticleChristmas Carol History & Mystery
The holiday season sees my kids and their friends singing versions of Christmas carols that aren’t exactly canon, as we did when we were young. You remember, “Jingle bells, Batman smells…” and “We...
View Article‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
[ RSS Readers may need to click through ] This time of year I always remember an old favourite, an alternate account of “the night before Christmas” and naturally I decided to share. Christmas eve is...
View ArticleThe Ghost of Christmas Past
This evening as my wife prepared to go back to work after the holiday, I remarked that this has been a better Christmas for us than last year. “The last two,” she replied. And it’s true. We were...
View ArticleHoMY 85: Away in a Manger
Now that we are past Advent and into the Christmastide season, I can legitimately publish Christmas carols to the list in my series, Then Sings My Soul: The Hymns of My Youth. In the church of that...
View ArticleHoMY 86: O Come, All Ye Faithful
This will be the last Christmas carol for the season, and it seems almost odd that I’ve not already added today’s selection to the series, Then Sings My Soul: The Hymns of My Youth. “O Come, All Ye...
View ArticleBonhoeffer on Christmas in Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer spent Christmas of 1943 in prison where he’d been since April of that year. Most of you know the story — a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, member of the German Resistance...
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