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Month: December 2016

Let’s Be Done with One Night Stands: Christmas and Our Divine Love Affair

Let’s Be Done with One Night Stands: Christmas and Our Divine Love Affair

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Confession: I am a Christmas music junky. Halfway through November, I begin to patiently wait for Black Friday when it becomes socially acceptable to blare the season’s tunes ad nauseam for a month, including the occasional Hanukah jam (shout out to those Maccabees). I really love Christmas music, whether it be cheesy crooner songs about being snowed in with a lovely companion, or the richer, more vibrant hymns, like “O Holy Night.” If there is one thing that causes me…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts: I Wanna Know What Love Is

Advent(ure) Thoughts: I Wanna Know What Love Is

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It’s almost here. In fact, by the time you read this, Christmas Day may already be upon us! (Is this week a double feature? Mayhaps!) And now our Advent(ure) of the last several weeks is near its conclusion. On the fourth Sunday of Advent, if your tradition adheres to the church calendar and practices Advent, you and your community lit the last candle. It was probably purple, and it is sometimes referred to as the Angel candle and it is…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts: On Joy (or)The Simpsons Meet Santa’s Little Helper

Advent(ure) Thoughts: On Joy (or)The Simpsons Meet Santa’s Little Helper

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Tis the season for Christmas movies and television galore! Whether it be How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Jingle All the Way, A Christmas Story, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation or It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, many of us have our seasonal staples and classics that we burn through between Black Friday and New Year’s Day. But have you ever noticed that these films and television specials are often more like Advent stories building up to Christmas? They all bear…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts/Minor Spoilers: The Peace of Dr. Strange

Advent(ure) Thoughts/Minor Spoilers: The Peace of Dr. Strange

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I know I am several weeks behind the film critics’ reviews on this one, but this past week I finally saw the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Dr. Strange. And it was good; easily one of my favorite films in the MCU, besides Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Yes, this post running double duty as… Advent(ure) Thoughts/ Minor Spoilers! Dr. Stephen Strange is one of the world’s most talented neurosurgeons, and he knows…

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Advent(ure) Thoughts: “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This.”

Advent(ure) Thoughts: “It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This.”

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Ah! Advent! No longer Thanksgiving, but not yet Christmas. And the “not yet Christmas” part is important because Advent is about the anticipation of Christmas. It is about the waiting and anticipating of the birth of God enfleshed in Christ. It is looking forward to that point in the church calendar when the Creator burst into Creation as never before and in a way no one could predict. But let’s not jump ahead to stables and shepherds and angels. The…

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