by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 9, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: For many Christian traditions, the season of Epiphany begins on January 6 and ends on the first day of Lent. One of the benefits of growing up a Latine child in the U.S. is that we get presents twice during the Christmas season. Like everyone else, we...
by Craig Nash | Jan 3, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
I once had a strict “No Christmas music until after Thanksgiving” policy. And by “policy,” I meant that if you listened to Christmas music before Thanksgiving, I pretended to judge you openly. This was a way for me to hide the real truth, which was that I was actually...
by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2023 | Opinion
An ominous warning that a “war on Christmas” was being waged by those who wanted to remove the distinctive Christian focus of the holiday accompanied our annual holiday season not long ago. The phrase seems to have come from John Gibson 2006’s book The War on...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 6, 2022 | Opinion
A new church year began over a month ago, but a new calendar year has just commenced. No matter how bright or dark the previous year has been, a new year brings the hope of a wide-open future. We all sense that we have a clean slate – a feeling expressed in...
by Colin Harris | Jan 4, 2022 | Opinion
Our traditional journey from Christmas to Epiphany and beyond features a transition from looking at decorations to looking through an incarnational lens to see everything else. I hope I don’t outgrow my enjoyment of the lights and other decorations that enhance the...
