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  • Think You Know What Happened on Thanksgiving? You DO!

    I thought we had escaped the holiday this year without the usual revisionist history lessons disguised as news reports but last night my local news carried a story about the confusion surrounding the ACTUAL events of the first Thanksgiving. This reporter apparently subscribes to the scattershot method of journalism. He managed to report that the …[ read more ]

  • New Advent Tradition Update – Preparation

    So, I am preparing for my new advent tradition (to begin November 29th) and my first task is to choose a devotional focus for the month – preparation for my time WITH God. I’ve been reading from Philip Yancey’s Grace Notes. It provides wonderful food for thought but I want to go to a deeper …[ read more ]

  • Angry Christians and Cultural Outrage Fatigue

    I’m not very good at moral outrage and I always feel a little guilty that I’m not. Take, for instance, the new Gap commercial that’s out now to encourage people to spend money for the holidays. It features an engaging rainbow assortment of young people dressed in Gap clothing dancing to aerobic choreography and chanting …[ read more ]

  • The Advent of a New Tradition

    It’s that time again. All of us who love the Lord will wrestle with the coming season. How best to honor this time we’ve chosen to celebrate the human birth of the Son of God? Some of us will bemoan the commercialism that has overtaken the holy day and scale back. Others will pull out …[ read more ]

  • Courage in the Face of Cool

    I love Blanche Gunderson. Blanche Gunderson is my hero. If you don’t know Blanche, put “New in Town” on your Netflix queue, pop it into your DVD player, sit back and prepare to be schooled in living your faith. Blanche lives in New Ulm, Minnesota. She’s the office manager for a floundering factory. She wears …[ read more ]