Can Every Day Be Christmas?

Can Every Day Be Christmas?

I find ‘A Christmas Carol’ to be an utterly amazing masterpiece. I know not whether literary critics would frown at me, but frankly I don’t care. We have just read it aloud again as a family. And I am inspired to join Scrooge in his solemn resolution. “I will...
He Came to Bring Us Home

He Came to Bring Us Home

There is a Home that is truly our home. And the Father in that home bends all His energy to make possible our taking up residence there. Permanently. It really is that simple. It is simple, but it is also somewhat involved—because life there is so rich. This is not...
Three Ideas for a Richer Christmas Celebration

Three Ideas for a Richer Christmas Celebration

There is a specific virtue of running a household well. For me, discovering it was one of the great fruits of studying ancient and medieval thinking. According to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, “domestic prudence” arranges everything in one’s home life toward the true...
Longing for Home at Christmastime

Longing for Home at Christmastime

Home is like heaven. What more is there to say? Dickens’s immortal short story of Christmas goes to the deepest longings of the human heart. This stands to reason, as the great drama of human life is always a drama of home, and home-coming. And this tends to come to...
The Gift God Offers at Christmastime

The Gift God Offers at Christmastime

We are rightly reminded at Christmas to keep in mind the reason for the season, or the reality that we are celebrating. A less-considered but related angle is that our very celebrating can and should change us. Or in any case it can dispose us for what often escapes...

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