Mystery of Mysteries
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
What is man that you should be mindful of him? the son of man that you should seek him out? (Psalm 8:5)
There is a wonder in being small and recognizing your smallness.
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Christmas Music Worth Your Time
The following may not quite enable the musical equivalent of a monastic flight from the forced saccharine madness that blares from too many speakers in public places, but each album will help create spaces of Christian contemplation and reflection during the Christmas season.
A Wondrous Exchange
On Christmas, we learn that God is absolute, total, self-emptying love.
Darkness Falls
On Christmas Eve Day, night has not yet come; darkness has not yet fallen. But it will come.
Cruciform Epiphany
One way of picturing the church calendar is as an unspooling thread, with each loop expanding the last. But this year, I’m pondering the complementary, and in some ways more elusive and profound, truth.
TBT: ‘The Year of the Lord’
“In this new year of the Lord that lies before us, there will be a plentiful measure of blood and tears. But, as always, Christ stands with outstretched, nail-scarred hands ready to make every man who responds to him an agent in the dispensation of His healing grace.”
More important than you thought: ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?’
For those of us who did not live through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the context may not be immediately evident.
Putting the Incarnation back in ‘incarnational’
The Incarnation is not a principle. It is not just a reminder that God works and speaks through people. It is not primarily a model for ministry.