Holidays

  • Living all 12 days

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    The project I’ve been stewing on for awhile is a new blog called  Break Sabbath. It is a passion project of mine, dealing with the very root of my faith–the notion that we are challenged to find the source of our faith in spite of its trappings. In my third post, I explore what it means…

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  • The Three Wise Guys (Eating Scripture)

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    Eating Scripture took a holiday to fast for a few weeks, but returns today with a serious hunger, eager to devour Epiphany! In Epiphany, we are challenged by the fact that what the holiday is intending to deal with is nothing like what people feel on that day. It began as a celebration of Jesus’s…

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  • How I Spent Labor Day

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    I love Labor Day. Particularly since it is the day of celebrating workers and the sacrifices and contributions that labor gives to the economy. We can go around pretending that it is a day for cookouts and signaling the end of summer, and not a celebration of unions and what they have brought us, such…

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  • Fixing What We Got Wrong

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    My mentor during seminary, The Rev. Darren Elin once remarked that we get our two biggest holidays backwards: we celebrate Christmas the night before and Easter the morning after when it should be the other way around.  Boy was he right. This is my first Christmas in 5 years in which I wasn’t one of…

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  • A Humble Beginning

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    My Christmas Message Christmas isn’t just some story about family.  It isn’t about shopping or gift-giving.  It isn’t about all the hoopla.  And even “putting Christ back into Christmas” is to make Christmas something it isn’t.  It is way more than that. Have a very Merry Christmas!

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  • Please Don’t Wish Me a Merry Christmas

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    If you’re out there waging your insurgent campaign to defend Christmas from those that have invaded your holiday and claimed it for their own, apparently throwing Christ in lock-up and using enhanced interrogations against him, I’ve got one simple message to you: Don’t wish me a “Merry Christmas!” Please, for the love of all things…

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