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It’s hard to find a really good way to celebrate a secular Easter.  The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ are not the stuff of simple and lightweight symbols. Easter transmits a complex message, transported through time through a sacrament of blood-wine and body-bread on an altar derived from a sacrificial cult. The best the…

…and he is like Jesus. Neither statement is to be taken for granted, and both are very significant for life in this generation. The knowledge/sense/preference/belief that there is a God is a choice.  That is to say, there is no absolutely compelling evidence in the same way that you could say, for example, “There is…

The purpose of life is most of all in what God does, secondly in what we do together, and least of all in what we do as our own achievement. Our American individualism turns those three things around. People search mightily for achievement on their own, making it the first goal, and then are stunned…

The worst thing of all would be for the Messiah to be born in Metropolitan Richmond this December and for all of us to miss it. Yet one wonders how in the world we could ever see it. For one thing, we are so fragmented, so without a single center, that wherever it was, most…

The search for the treasures of of heaven is a daily one. That is a part of its character. There is nothing static about it. It is a daily commitment, a daily exploration, a daily mystery, a daily prayer. “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where…