Tag: nativity

Losing stuff drives me to distraction. I totally empathize with the characters in Jesus’ stories who search for things. Just like the woman who loses the coin and the shepherd who loses the sheep, when my keys go missing it’s hard for me to do much except to search and mutter.

He came into this world as one of the most fragile and vulnerable beings, a newborn infant, to invite us into a relationship with him in order that we might be reconciled to himself and therefore no longer under condemnation.

This weekend, South Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 5607 S Freya St, will be hosting its 11th annual Journey to Bethlehem event giving attendees a tour of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Welcome to “Zombie Nativity,” a new Christmas decoration/collectible/toy featuring a holy family, an angel and a donkey who are undead, partially decomposing and looking for their favorite meal — the gray matter inside your head. Photo courtesy of NerdTalk Toys

The war on Christmas is a reality, well, at least it was at St, Peter’s Square when a Ukrainian feminist snatched the little nativity Jesus in a rush of topless protest.

I take comfort in reading the nativity narrative in seeing that even for the Holy Family nothing went according to plan

We had a hand carved and hand painted set of nativity figures from my dad's home in Oberammergau, Bavaria.