Items tagged holiday

• Is Halloween a trick or a treat?

  We asked several of our members to respond to the questions, "What was Halloween like for you as a kid? If you have kids, what is your response to it now?"

• Redeeming Cupid

  A teacher's ambiguous lesson leads to redemptive thinking about Valentine's Day.

• Meeting God in the kitchen

  On the language of food, in the everyday and in the feast.

• 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.

• How to give great gifts

  A practical guide for the dazed and confused…as well as the overly confident.

• Remembering

  Holiday memories serve as reminders of the best gifts.

• Grant’s recommendations 11.16.07

  From Pieces of April and an album of 69 love songs by its music director to the dark alienation of Nick Cave and Grinderman.
  

• A shifting image

  On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.

• The Halloween Bunny

  A tale of disillusionment, for better or worse.

• How to have a meaningful Christmas

  Embracing mystical experience as a means of understanding the incarnation.