Scientists tell us that December 21st is the longest night of the year. Every child knows better:  Christmas Eve is the longest night of the year.  I remember lying in bed as a child trying to will myself to sleep, peering outside the window to wonder which sparkling...

Every Christmas we sing, “Good Christian friends, rejoice, with heart and soul and voice, ox and ass before him bow and he is in the manger now, Christ is born today, Christ is born today.”  Then everybody, particularly the youth, giggles, like they just sang...

A few years ago I was asked to address a large college audience concerning the question, ‘What is our heritage as Christians?’  The more I pondered that question, the less sure I was that I knew the answer.  But one phrase came to mind:  “We are the sheep of his...