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The Power of Christmas

Christmas comes with a lot of fluff. Let me explain…. Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash From the moment Halloween expires on…

Deanna Holmes wants to celebrate her first Christmas married with both sides of the family packed into their tiny Chicago…

I’m writing this post just days after a dear friend lost her husband. The heartache is palpable and the fracture…

As much as we try to make it so (and as much as we would sometimes like to pretend), the…

Photo by Tim Umphreys on Unsplash This has been such a hard year. 2020 started out with all the hopeful promise a new…

Weaving together ideas from several popular Christmas carols, You Can Hear it in the Carols (Rejoice!), is a dramatic reading…

I’ve heard it said that we’re all waiting for something, and I suppose in part that’s true. But when you’re…

One of my very favorite parts of the Christmas season is gift-giving, and one of my very favorite types of…

2018 has already been so very full – full of life, and joy, and challenge, and goodbye – and it…

It is no mistake we see such extremes at the manger – the wealth and nobility of Wise Men, and…