Spiritual writer Richard Rohr well sums the significance of Christmas in one challenging sentence: “Frankly, Jesus came to show us how to be human much more than how to be spiritual, and the process still seems to be in its early stages.” Jesus’s birth indeed challenges those who celebrate the gift of the Christ ChildContinue reading “Is There Any Better Gift?”
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Infected with Jesus
For those who celebrate the gift of Jesus, the birth of the Christ Child issues a challenge to become wholly new people who lead very different kinds of lives. If you kneel with the shepherds and gift like the Magi come December, but then skedaddle out of Bethlehem, flip over the calendar to January, andContinue reading “Infected with Jesus”