Hobby Lobby’s 2014 Christmas Message
HOBBY LOBBY, the craft store which challenged the Affordable Care Act’s requirement and refused to pay for abortifacient drugs as part of its employee health package, has once again celebrated the...
View ArticleUnder the Christmas Tree: Books for Children of All Ages
Each year during Advent, I’ve tried to offer a list of great books for children: silly stories to make kids laugh, picture books that will fill them with wide-eyed wonder, fact books to help them...
View ArticleThe Christmas Plains: A Sentimental Classic from Joseph Bottum
Joseph Bottum is the kind of storyteller who captures your attention with a straightforward phrase, a wordsmith who tickles the imagination with his own brand of plainspeak, elucidating what you knew...
View ArticleHe’s Coming! The Great O Antiphons
He’s coming! And as the Church anticipates the coming of the Messiah at Christmas, we sing the joyful O Antiphons at Vespers during this last week of Advent. Each of the O Antiphons reminds us of a...
View ArticleTHE O ANTIPHONS and the Beatles: Great Secrets Revealed?
First, I mean no disrespect—but if you are a theologian or a historian or a liturgist, please pop in here to explain something for me. I’ve been reading about the O ANTIPHONS, those profound...
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