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Items tagged incarnation

• Reflecting on the incarnation

  An exploration of the interplay among language, the body and the incarnation.

• Incarnation and the image of God

  The mystery of the incarnation is not just a topic for philosophers and theologians--it initiated the transformation of our family tree as children of God. Iconography is one attempt to capture the mystery, but what can we discover by going straight to the Word?

• <I>The Darkest Night of the Year</I> encourages silent night

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

• Simply this

  Late night thoughts on the incarnation as turning point.

• Holy commitment

  Travels in Tibet reveal some of the lessons that the practice of Buddhism can teach Christians.

• Unto us

  Stories from personal and family history, told through the art of two manger scenes.

• Late night thoughts on incarnation

  What does it mean to be fully human?

• Angels don't kiss

  Claiming what distinguishes us from angels may involve reclaiming the "holy kiss."

• Born in a barn

  A review of Debbie Blue's collection of sermons titled Sensual Orthdoxy.

• Closeness and incarnation

  An interactive reflection on families, intimacy and the transforming power of Christ’s birth.

• Painting the Incarnation

  On the incarnation of ideas into art in Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel, My Name is Asher Lev.
  

• 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.

• In the flesh

  On the Divine's experience of love from within a body.

• Hi, there

  A reflection on God entering the world as a newborn baby.

• Some keep the Sabbath

  A humble home liturgy inspires confession and remembering.

• Conversation: “Incarnate”

  Your opportunity to be a part of the conversation about the everyday implications of the Incarnation.

• Grace is like a box of chocolates

  On understanding a creative reality through images.

• What consumes us?

  A review of the book
Enough: Contentment in An Age of Excess
by Will Samson.

• Actualizing the virtual

  Facilitating food and gatherings via the tools of technology.

• Contain yourself!

  What bodies -- young or old or vibrant or dying -- can teach us about God and ourselves.

• A peaceable feast

  Navigating family culinary traditions around the holidays with grace and vision.

• Fixing the toilet in the ivory tower

  A review of the book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford.

• Breaking through

  On the terrible, wonderful mystery of entering the world.

• Does Shane Claiborne use Google?

  Google knows ten things to be true...so what are our certainties?

• A divine measure

  A poetic reflection on incarnation.

• Embracing the darkness

  On the short, dark days of Advent, experienced through Madeleine L'Engle's The Irrational Season.

• How do you solve a problem like Jesus?

  An account of the journey through childlike faith to a matured understanding of Christ's divinity and humanity.

• Hello, Jesus!

  Where has Jesus walked in the years since the ascension?

• Jesus in the NICU

  On learning to see Immanuel here and now.