Tag: christmas

To my father -- an agnostic, a pacifist, and a humanist -- both Christmas and Chanukah reflected the importance of gathering with loved ones during the coldest, darkest days of winter to create warmth and light. I learned to value the commonalities rather than dwelling on the differences.

Friends can make the holiday, and these friends did.

As we celebrate Christmas... I’m not convinced that theology is necessarily about searching

Below is a list of Christmas Eve, Christmas and other special Christmas services happening throughout Spokane.

This year, Dec. 25 will welcome both Christmas and the first full day of Chanukah. This is a rare occurrence.

Christmas on a Sunday can also present a conundrum as pastors try to balance parishioners’ sacred religious observance at church with family time in the home.

The message of Christmas is not mandated joy or merriment. It is a call to feast. And we gather to feast not because we are happy. We feast because God sees fit to feed us