The Other Jesus

I want to tell you about the moment when I realized that Fred Claus, a bad movie, had–consciously or unconsciously–crossed over the line into sacrilege. Now “sacrilege”–like “heretic”–is not a word I throw around lightly, but I don’t know any other term to use. It comes from the Latin; its root is the same as […]

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I’m working this week on the Christmas lesson for The Thoughtful Christian, and it’s been a useful chance to meditate on what it is about the holidays I don’t like. The biggest thing, of course, is that for all our discussion in recent years about the meaning of Christmas, about Christmas being hijacked by secular […]

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