Other English-speaking lands celebrate the day after Christmas as Boxing Day. It’s a day to give gifts to the people who serve you. First it was servants, when even the middle class had servants, but then it extended to others, including pastors. Sounds like another
We had some posts about the persecution of Christians in Orissa, the state in India, and the prospect that an all-day shutdown on Christmas, as pushed by Hindu extremists, would mean more atrocities against Christians, such as that 11-year-old girl we wrote about who forgave
For Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we will have no posts about economics, politics, or cultural woes. We will just contemplate and celebrate the incarnation of God. I always find it odd that so many Christians, even, tend to think of God as an abstraction
by G. K. Chesterton Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain That we may lose the way. Oh, we have learnt to peer and pore On tortured puzzles from our youth,
The word “Christmas” refers to the birth of Christ, of course, but more specifically it denotes the worship service–more than that, the Communion service, the “mass”–that marks that event. So as we put Christ back in Christmas, let us also put mass back in Christmas.
Our two-year-old grandson is here. We Tivo’d some episodes of his favorite show, “Thomas and His Friends.” Thomas is a train engine, and his friends are other kinds of heavy machinery and the people who tend them. The “Thomas” franchise started as a series of
by G. K. Chesterton The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s breast His hair was like a star. (O stern and cunning are the
From That Controversial ‘Messiah’ in “Christianity Today”: Maestro John Nelson left Shanghai shortly after directing Handel’s Messiah in 2006. Most of the audience members had loved it, Nelson said, although neither the English words nor a translation had been in their programs. “The force of
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton [1874-1936] There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing
My film class is over, and my Netflix account is my own. Christmas break looms. I’ve been somewhat out of touch with movie releases since I stepped away from reviewing movies for WORLD. The post below shows my frustration with bad, though heralded, movies. You
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