Last Christmas week was marked by faded skies and torrential rains, all culminating in a good amount of flooding throughout the state. Ou...

I pass our family nativity, each time pausing just a moment to glance at the herd of sheep. One, two, three, four, five...plus the two h...

Many of us know well the straight-line plot of the Christmas story.  Angel Gabriel visits Mary with the news that she is with child, thoug...

Yesterday marked the first day of Advent, the countdown to Christmas.  Around the world, God's people gather round the kingly purple...

People are SO pushy this time of year. Seriously. Thanksgiving isn't quite here yet, but I've been "encouraged" all wee...

Six stockings are hung by the faux chimney with care, the upstairs balcony railing twinkles with a hundred miniature starry ligh...

Three weeks before Thanksgiving, and the mall is aglitter with everything corporate Christmas.  Tinseled lights span the open air over sho...