This is Faith in Play #74: Preparation, for January 2024. For most of us, Christmas is over. When I was a boy, our tree and decorations went up shortly after Thanksgiving, and on New Year’s Day everything came down and was packed away, the tree burned in the fireplace as part of the New Year … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #48: Advent, for November 2021. There was, decades ago, a gag in a comic strip (called Funky Winkerbean) in which two of the characters were walking down the street marveling at all the decorations, the lights and garlands and wreaths put up for Christmas, and then one of them says, … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #36: Thanks, for November 2020. Later this month Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving, a secular holiday established for religious people to give thanks to God. Canadians did the same in the middle of last month. Most cultures and nations historically have had a harvest festival celebration to express gratitude for … [Read more…]