by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 26, 2012 | Opinion
Assorted ruminations on the day after Christmas: Mistletoe: I didn’t see a single sprig of mistletoe this year. Is the tree-borne parasite becoming rare, or just the holiday tradition? Or, is there a broad-scale conspiracy to cut back on kissing during flu...
by David Hughes | Dec 25, 2012 | Opinion
Contrary to popular opinion, the Christmas story is not all sweetness and light. Lost in our usual Christmas shuffle of gift-giving, carol-singing and candle-lighting is the sobering tale of the “slaughter of the innocents” recorded in the Bible. According...
by Jim Somerville | Dec 25, 2012 | Opinion
It may have been the article I posted back on Day 61 of our KOH2RVA (Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia) initiative about bowling alleys that inspired me. Whatever it was, when my interfaith group started talking about how we could move beyond dialogue to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 24, 2012 | Opinion
At Christmas we often have special services and pageants to celebrate the birth of Christ. In the light of the Sandy Hook massacre, many of us have been reminded of the slaughter of the innocents ordered by King Herod after Jesus’ birth. I’ve often...
by Leroy Seat | Dec 24, 2012 | Opinion
Charles Dickens was an English social critic and writer who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era (1837-1901) in Great Britain. He was born 200 years ago in 1812 and is the author of such highly acclaimed novels as “The Adventures...
by Larry Coleman | Dec 24, 2012 | Opinion
A marred Christmas and a marred New Year. Merry has been stolen from Christmas, Happy from New Year’s. As much as we might desire or long to celebrate the birth of God among us, the violence in Newtown, Conn., does not proclaim birth to us, but miscarriage,...
