Items tagged Christmas

• The Darkest Night of the Year encourages silent night

  Over the Rhine's Christmas album takes a quieter approach to Christmas music.

• Winter delights

  Instead of succumbing to the shop-shop-shop musak of the season, settle back with the crackling warmth of a recommended winter album.

• A Latin American Christmas creed

  A statement of beliefs fitting for holiday reflection.

• Cynicism vs. gifts of grace

  On seeking genuine celebration during the holidays.

• Christmas interruptus

  A meditation on observing (and not observing) holiday traditions.

• All I ever get for Christmas is blue

  What to do when sugary musak just doesn?t cut it.

• Remembering

  Holiday memories serve as reminders of the best gifts.

• Reality and hope

  A pastor presents a message of Advent hope to a small congregation in the middle of uncertainty.
  

• Black Pete at the manger?

  A family’s storytelling and costuming tradition reveals the disconnect between Christmas and gift giving.

• A Christmas reflection on an extraordinary life

  A time of year when families traditionally gathers prompts thoughts about a mother’s identity.

• Hating my family

  The times, they are a changin’ in my family and yours.

• A shifting image

  On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.

• How to have a meaningful Christmas

  Embracing mystical experience as a means of understanding the incarnation.

• Incarnational Meditation Exercises 1-3

  Preparing for the Christmas celebration during Advent by touching, visiting and living.