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December 2016

December 27, 2016
Yesterday, the Western Church celebrated the martyrdom of Saint Stephen. Today, it's our turn in...
December 27, 2016
My heart is broken. People Magazine is reporting that Carrie Fisher just died of the...
December 26, 2016
Yes, I read the RNC Christmas Greeting.  I read the line everybody's up in arms...
December 25, 2016
Merry Christmas. I need to raw your attention to the finest satire I have read in this heinous,...
December 24, 2016
  If you are disappointed this Christmas, I understand. If you are lonely and depressed,...
December 23, 2016
Here we have an illuminated letter from the Saltzburg Missal, from about 1480, portraying the Magi...
December 23, 2016
I don't really want to have to say this. I like writing prose poems about...
December 21, 2016
Blogging for Patheos, you meet a lot of atheists. In fact, if you're on the...
December 20, 2016
I have two works of mercy to ask of my readers. First, a spiritual work...
December 20, 2016
All right, NOW it's Christmas. I know, it's still Advent, but seriously: Christmas. I just...
December 19, 2016
There was a hard frost outside this morning. All the puddles from the weekend's rain...
December 18, 2016
We're almost to the end of the Nativity Fast now. Last week was the Sunday...
December 18, 2016
I have the most brilliant internet friends. The other day, for example, my friend had...
December 16, 2016
I have a love-hate relationship with computers. I love the ease of typing, I love...
December 16, 2016
I checked in with our friends at The Friendship Room on their facebook page today....
December 15, 2016
It seems that there is significant doubt as to the veracity of that "heartwarming" five-year-old-dying-in-Santa's-arms story...
December 14, 2016
Excuse a musical interlude: Christmas is a-coming, the goose and I are fat. Have you...
December 14, 2016
The lovely and talented Simcha Fisher has published a list of things she doesn't appreciate...
December 13, 2016
Growing up, we didn't trim the Christmas tree until we lit the pink candle. We...
December 13, 2016
I'm reading the news about Aleppo, as I'm sure most of you are by now....
December 12, 2016
(image via Pixabay) I don't go for Elf on the Shelf, myself. My daughter doesn't need...
December 11, 2016
You may recall that I'm directing this year's Christmas play at my church. This play...
December 10, 2016
    I want to talk to my readers who, like me, have been abused,...
December 09, 2016
I asked Saint Nicholas to be my father. It wasn't really necessary. All saints are...
December 09, 2016
    I've just been informed about an urgent Missing Persons case from the Portland...
December 07, 2016
I have the best readers; the most wonderful, dedicated following. Sometimes they leave me comments,...
December 07, 2016
I had a friend-- a wonderful, compassionate, funny and creative friend, a great gal in...
December 06, 2016
Of course it's too little and far too late. After the sordid history of our...
December 05, 2016
Here's a video made by my friend Lindsay, explaining about all those Christmas Facebook schemes...
December 05, 2016
Once, in the city of Myra, there was a poor man who had three beautiful...
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