Christmas 2019We travel this route across desert searchingSouls weighed down by horror and despair.Artificial trees shimmer.

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The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best ...

Why does a Mozart opera make me weepBut I don’t cry at any other one?Herr Wagner’s thunderbolts put me to sleep.Rossini’s ...

At first glance, the nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Mary ...

His stone coldmanger ponderingjust what Is ItGod hath wroughtin that slightly morethan a poundof flesh, or soabout to besome day, soonin a couple weeksor soto feelthe knife’s slice . . .as if ...

He argues that the source of America’s gun violence is a lack of meaningful laws regulating guns, owing overwhelmingly to the ...

As these failures unfold, God always seems to be lingering in the background—not a theologically rigorous or morally ...

Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and Democratic state senator in Iowa, has beaten Republican candidates in three ...

In Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence’s character seems to have intuited an invisible straitjacket of maternal expectations, and ...

Gossip falls into this second category. What is it? When are we doing it? Is it just a hostile description of ordinary ...

The National Ghost Ranch Foundation and the Presbyterian Foundation jointly announced plans to preserve the landscapes and ...