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...