Is Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a Christmas Song?
How about Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” instead? You might wonder if these are trick questions…. Cohen’s song was made famous by both the...
Cur Deus Homo?
Mark 14:22-25 isn’t a typical Advent passage, but it provides a few clues about the coming of the Lord: “While they were eating, Jesus...
The Charlie Brown Christmas Problem
Charles Schultz’s classic TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was originally broadcast in 1965. And, a generation later, the problem...
Come, Thou Not-Expected Jesus
That first Christmas night, the shepherds on that Judean hillside were properly terrified by the Identified Flying Object blazing above...
Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...
Taking Christ Out of "Kris-mass"
This time of year, preachers are constantly telling us to “put Christ back into Christmas.” Well, maybe. My beloved and I watched the...