[Free post] Checking readers' predictions for 2024 and bestowing the coveted Gluten Free Award for the best one. (Or, this year, the best two.) Read more
[Free post] Checking readers' predictions for 2024 and bestowing the coveted Gluten Free Award for the best one. (Or, this year, the best two.) Read more
The most popular Bible verses of 2024. The decline in church attendance has stopped. And the U.S. population is up.
English Dictionaries have the custom of proclaiming a "word of the year," new words or old words with new meanings that lexicographers believe reflect the time. Here are the words of the year from various dictionaries and what they tell us about 2024.
Considering Donald Trump's second term, the economy, trends, or other factors on your mind, are you optimistic or pessimistic about the upcoming year?
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.
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