Looking back on the news, religion, and media of 2024.
Looking back on the news, religion, and media of 2024.
[A free post.] To celebrate the New Year, we will look back on 2024 and look forward into 2025. As is the custom at this blog, we draw on the predictions of you, the reader. On New Year's Eve, we will look at the predictions for 2024 and honor the best one. On New Year's Day, we will start next year's contest. So be thinking about what you think might happen in 2025! Read more
Christmas is about the coming of "Immanuel." God is with us! My Christmas card to you. . .
Merry Christmas! A custom of this blog has been to give Christmas presents to my readers. I don't know your size and Amazon is on strike, so these have to be virtual gifts. Specifically, I am going to put you on to things I think you will enjoy that you can find online for free.
There is good reason why we celebrate Christmas when we do, near the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, a time of cold and lifelessness.
Much of our Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is actually Advent music, expressing a longing for a Christmas to come. True Christmas music is about the longing fulfilled, expressing the emotion of joy. There are also songs that look back to Christmas in the past, whether in nostalgia or faith. And Luther's Christmas songs do something completely different.
Social observers and trend-trackers are sensing a new cultural "vibe" ("the mood of a place, situation, person, etc. and the way that they make you feel"), a reaction against "Woke" and a return to belief in objective reality.
This is the place to share your thoughts, feelings, concerns, memories, and anything else you'd like to bring up regarding this holiday of holidays.
President Biden, having extended clemency to over 1,500 offenders, is now, out of fear of President Trump, considering pardoning officials who haven't been accused of any crime. This is like churches that try to proclaim the Gospel while insisting that sinners aren't doing anything wrong.
Jesus gives a number of signs that signify that the End Times. One of them is a baffling phenomenon that has emerged quite recently: that people will consider barrenness--or by extension, not having children--to be a blessing.
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