Christmas isn’t about presents. We tell that to children, and yet our actions are so contrary it’s deafening. “Peace on earth”, “good will towards men”, “love your neighbor”; all these pithy sayings float in the air as Christmas approaches, but I’m not convinced we really know what they mean. How can we, when people are […]

It’s no secret that one of my favorite writers is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. When Burk and I were first dating he gave me Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison for my birthday; I love it and will often open it to re-read one of his profound poems or his wedding sermon. I found again the letter […]

My life is full of mountains and valleys, the beautiful and tragic, monotonous and adventurous; and no matter what the circumstance, I wander. I wander from the God who created and rescued me, I wander from justice, mercy and humility. I wander into sin and depravity. Yes, we are prone to wander and that is […]

We tend to celebrate Christmas as this removed holiday, this event in time that happened in a sort of disconnected way; but Christmas can only exist in it’s connection with past, present and future. The events of Christmas–the birth of Jesus Christ–were necessary because of what took place at the beginning of humanity; that moment […]

December 25th we celebrate the Christian holiday, Christmas; with great anticipation and excitement we begin Christmas music as soon as we’ve eaten the last of our Thanksgiving turkey. But December 25th is just like any other day of the year. The precise date of Jesus birth is unknown, and most scholars doubt it was even […]