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December 2008

December 16, 2008

Santa and the Nicene Creed

Conclusion from earlier posts about St. Nicholas: To combat the secularization of Christmas, we should...

December 15, 2008

Yes, Virginia, There is a St. Nicholas

You must read Pastor William Cwirla's version of the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa...

December 12, 2008

This little Babe

Our Patrick Henry Chorale did a Christmas program, a "Lessons & Carols" service, which consists...

December 10, 2008

Santa Claus is coming to slap

Paul McCain posted that old chestnut I wrote for World about St. Nicholas, so I...

December 09, 2008

Another unlikely convert

We blogged earlier about Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas becoming a Christian. Now he tells his...

November 2008

November 24, 2008

Happy Sunday of the Fulfillment yesterday

On Sunday, the last Sunday of the church year, we had a sermon about the...

October 2008

October 06, 2008

Raphael on Christ

"The Washington Post" had a rather remarkable feature, in a special Museums insert, on this...

October 02, 2008

Satirist’s confession of faith

The satirist P. J. O'Rourke, usually a wild man, learned that he has cancer. He...

September 2008

September 29, 2008

Enemy of the Baptized

I hope you had a happy St. Michael and All Angels day yesterday, a day...

July 2008

July 02, 2008

When Christians visit

Rev. William Weedon offers a great quote from C. F. W. Walther, the father of...

May 2008

May 01, 2008

Happy Ascension Day

Today is Ascension Day, the 40th day after Easter, commemorating the day on which our...

March 2008

March 28, 2008

Why Islam denies Christ’s crucifixion

Appended to that Jonah article we blogged about yesterday was another tidbit from Ronald F....

March 27, 2008

John Updike on the Resurrection

In case you missed it, Tickletext, in his comment on Grunewald's Easter painting, posted this...

March 26, 2008

Happy Annunciation–and Anti-Abortion–Day

Today is nine months before Christmas, making it the festival of the Annunciation of the...

March 25, 2008

Anne Rice on Jesus, Faith, & Vocation

Anne Rice, who became famous for writing highly literate vampire novels, gives more details about...

March 21, 2008

He saved others; He cannot save Himself

Grunewald's "Crucifixion" (Note how the same artist of this utterly dead Jesus renders Him at...

March 21, 2008

A poem for Good Friday

As a meditation for this day read "The Sacrifice" by George Herbert. Notice how Samuel...

March 21, 2008

Why you can’t commercialize Easter

Read why Easter resists commercialization in this article from Slate Magazine, no less, not a...

March 21, 2008

A poem for Easter

And here is a George Herbert poem for your Easter meditation entitled Easter. Note what...

March 21, 2008

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Grunewald's "Resurrection" (By the same artist who painted the Crucifixion, above. From the deadest Jesus...

March 20, 2008

Happy Maundy Thursday

Here is a holiday--a holy day--we don't have to rehabilitate, re-claim, or re-interpret, a holy...

March 18, 2008

A thought for Holy Week

The posts below are too pessimistic and nostalgic to leave by themselves for Holy Week,...

March 17, 2008

The passion of Passion Week

Something our pastor said in church yesterday threw into high relief what we mean by...

February 2008

February 22, 2008

Looking for a new Jesus

Pop-spirituality guru Deeprak Chopra writes an essay entitled Why We Need a New Jesus. He...

February 20, 2008

Banishing Christianity from the public square

A letter-writer to the "Washington Post" fulminates at the way NASCAR allowed the Daytona 500...

February 14, 2008

Blood covenants

The Anchoress gives us a remarkable Lenten meditation that explains the significance of circumcision in the...

February 13, 2008

Christ of the Lightning

That huge statue of Christ overlooking Rio De Janeiro (where our fellow Cranacher Frank Sonnek...