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Enter the Sanctuary

Enter the Sanctuary

Every year Webster’s dictionary releases a “word of the year.” It’s a fascinating exposé  on pop culture in a single word.  How do they choose it?  Emotionlessly. The process is based solely on search engine statistics and algorithms that determine which one word...
The Word Made Flesh

The Word Made Flesh

For 28 years of marriage, I insisted on a real Christmas tree, because real trees equaled real joy.  We’d travel as a family the Friday after Thanksgiving, hunting and opening and shaking and fluffing dozens of Frasier firs till we crowned “the perfect one.” We’d...
The Stigma and Splendor of Nazareth

The Stigma and Splendor of Nazareth

Reinventing yourself is one of the privileges of growing up. You don’t have to be the awkward adolescent with braces and a lazy eye forever. One day, the braces come off and the contact lenses go in, and you metamorphose. You leave that person behind – the loser, the...