God’s Name and Ours
By Jon Jordan
Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life, shares a family story about his grandmother who became ill at the age of 32. She was hospitalized for months, and doctors told her family that she w... Read More...
Sloth, Charity, and the Christmas “Pause”
By Thomas Kincaid
Did you know that every year — every single one — New Year’s Day is exactly one week after Christmas Day?
Of course you did. It happens like, well, clockwork.
For some reason, I remem... Read More...
The Christmas Ham
Not a true story
By Amber Noel
I’m in the middle of telling this really funny long-form joke, and I’ve just served up my famous Christmas ham, and we’re all snacking festively and sipping hot drinks, and I’ve just arrived at the punchline, when someone int... Read More...
Herod and the Holy Innocents
By Neil Dhingra
"When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the... Read More...
St. John the Evangelist
By John Bauerschmidt
I fell into the orbit of St. John the Evangelist quite early, without being aware of it. We share a name, after all; although in my case it was my grandfather’s, with no immediate connec... Read More...
Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen
By Steve Rice
The Golden Legend, Jacobus de Voragine’s medieval commentary on the saints, says the Church has kept the feasts of St. Stephen, St. John, and the Holy Innocents on the days immediately following Christmas so that Our Lord “might have his compa... Read More...
The Moving Feasts of Christmas and Epiphany
By Matthew S. C. Olver
The ways of numbering and counting and commemorating the days of the Christmas and Epiphany seasons are enough to leave one’s head spinning. The evidence seems to be that Epiphany on J... Read More...
The Fullness of Time
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adop... Read More...