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Have we committed ourselves to living the Message of the Christ more fully in the coming year?
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A Progressive Christian Perspective on Christmas
How does a progressive Christian approach the Nativity and Christmas Day? The Message of the Nativity is meant to transform us and to encourage us. It’s intended to awaken in us the knowledge that we are one with God
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Like Scrooge or the Grinch we resist hearing the message of Christmas. Because it’s not just a source of comfort and joy. It’s a responsibility
Continue readingAdvent 2012 – Joy
Advent – Joy – those trying to make sense of the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary will not find “joy”. But we may find chara.
Continue readingAnyone Got an Extra Coat?
Do we want short-term “joy” of material gain, or the long-term Joy of living our agapé relationship with God?
Continue readingAdvent 2012 – Peace
the Nativity says to me that “God so Trusts the world” that God put the future of the Christ in our hands
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Remember that we are part of an eternal relationship that is without beginning or end.
Continue readingAdvent 2012 – Hope
God’s Hope, and ours, is that we nurture each other and the world with all of the love and compassion that we would the Christ child.
Continue readingDissipation and Drunkenness
Those who want to make Christianity a dour, joyless religion that sees nothing in humanity except its “sinfulness” like to point out comments like this.
Continue readingLove – Advent 2011
I sometimes wonder if we get caught up in the commercialism of Christmas to the extent that we do simply because we’ve come to believe that there’s very little we can do to bring about either “peace on earth” or something as modest as peace in our own small corner of it.
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