This is the time of year, along with Lent/Easter, that various aspects of Christianity get a lot of media coverage. You’ll see cover stories of the major news periodicals–US News ( “The Real Jesus ” ), Time, Newsweek ( “How Jewish Family Values Shaped Christianity” –devoted to Mary, or the Nativity, or something related to [...]

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Its hard to blog while on a vacation, particularly the kind of vacation I’m in the midst of: mainly doctor’s checkups for the kiddos, working with contractors on neglected areas of the house, trying to clean up the home office, that sort of thing. But I did get off to see Casino Royale today. If [...]

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From Neil Craigan at his blog brokenbonds loosedchains, you can find this mediation (and this picture):
A time to slow down, a time to lie fallow, a time in which growth ceases and nature rests. It is a time in which many animals go into hibernation not emerging again until the warmer days of spring come [...]

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Bob Carlton, on his blog The Corner, offers this wonderful advent meditation. I’m shamelessly copying it, but his blog is a good one to read, if you’re so inclined. Enjoy:

Quiet By Paul Simon the album You’re The One
I am heading for a time of quiet
When my restlessness is past
And I can lie down [...]

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