The gospel is more recipe than record. The only way you know that you have received the gift of Christmas is to live in love.
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‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ It really is, according to the Gospels
“It’s a Wonderful Life” is the Gospel transposed onto celluloid. The message is the same in both.
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Who is Mary? She is one of us.
So, who is Mary? Like any other character in the Gospel, we are meant to try on her life in meditation, to learn from her what it means to be a disciple. Mary is one of us.
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The Christmas season is not your savior — Christ is.
The Christmas season is not your savior. Christ is. Your inability to feel joy in response to a season says nothing about your relationship to your savior.
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The message of the Immaculate Conception: Thank God for do-overs
A do-over. Who has not wanted one, at times with no little desperation? That’s what God gives us in Christ.
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Christ’s coming is our reason to hope
It’s hard to know how to live without hope. Is it even possible?
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This Advent, don’t just be spiritual. Be religious.
Religion is what happens when spirituality moves from speculation and desire into participation and commitment.
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Why is Pontius Pilate in our creed?
A mystic declaration links all its cosmography to a concrete moment in history.
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Knowing how the story ends makes surrendering to death possible
You can cherish life and surrender it when you know that it is never insignificant, that your story matters, that you exist to love the author of our tale.
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Love does not calculate. It just loves.
Jesus does not draw attention to the widow and her “two small coins” because he wants you to do some good work or to donate a certain percentage of your resources.