Apparently Christmas carols are peace and anti-war songs far more frequently than I could have possibly imagined just a few days ago. I...

Glo-oooooooooooooooooooooo ria Is there a song more fun to sing in church? Inhale and then belt it out. It reminds me of being at a...

This is adapted from my 2021’s Christmas Eve sermon. I have adapted it for New Year’s Eve 2022. A couple of nights ago I was struggling...

I think the greatest Christmas carols are born of a brutiful concoction of anguish and hope. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “I Heard the...

There’s a mood to so many Christmas carols and songs that’s a bit complicated to name. There’s like this expectation of good times and...

It’s Wednesday. And it's a Wednesday of Wednesdays. A few days past the first day of Christmas. Coffee alone won’t pick me up. These days...

This carol has deeply grown on me the last few years. Ever since studying the cultural relevance of shepherds, their economic hardships,...

“Away in a manger no crib for the babe…” With these soft and gentle words we are reminded that there was no room for the Holy Family as...

A mere year into what some have called a conversion (or perhaps better phrased, a fresh new love of God) Charles Wesley (founder of the...

14 kids and one teacher. No, 15 kids and one teacher. No, 18 kids....killed. The news kept flashing across my computer screen during an...