Feed Troubles Apr09

Feed Troubles

A quick word of apology and explanation to you all regarding the interruption in subscription service that led to a) no posts being sent since last Thursday and b) the onslaught of seven posts yesterday. While I doubt many of you noticed the lack of emails (I’ll confess that, with...

Retelling the Christmas Story Dec10

Retelling the Christmas Story

I don’t know about you, but when I think of the Christmas story, I think of, well, the Christmas story. There’s a kind of seamless whole that I have in my head made up of angels and shepherds and Mary and Joseph and the baby in the manger and the stable animals and the star and magi and all the rest. What I don’t think about is how I learned this story; how, that is, it was told to me. Certainly I learned a lot of it from the Bible, hearing the various – and distinct – portions of the story read from Matthew and Luke. But I also learned it from the Christmas carols. And from the manifold crèches in all shapes and sizes that I’ve...