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Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Marley Was Dead, and Other Reflections

TWI Admin | 2 min read

Over the years, our founder and Senior Fellow Dr. Steve Garber has written many short meditations inspired by the Advent season, reflections that bring us deeper into the biblical story and the broader traditions that surround the Christmas season. Readers of our site regularly revisit them, so we are pleased to gather them as a...

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Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Sing Like Never Before: Appreciating the Theology & Stories Behind the Hymns We Love, Part I

Steve Martin | 8 min read

This article was edited and co-authored by Joe Palekas. Have you ever caught yourself singing along to a song on the radio that you know by heart, only to realize that you’ve never actually given serious thought to the words before? Worse yet, has this happened to you in church? Your eyes and heart glaze...

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Faith • Liturgical Reflections

Advent Meditations: O Holy Night

Baylee Eby | 4 min read

If there were ever a season for the believer to recognize his or her worth and focus on the dignity of his or her fellow human being, it is the Advent season! Advent is a season of waiting, preparation and expectation for the incarnation of the Savior, Jesus Christ.  The word is literally defined as...

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Faith • Biblical Reflections

Through the Eyes of Zechariah

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 8 min read

Let me tell you my story, now that I can talk again… I’m an old man, way too old to have an infant son.  But this is what the last year has held.  It’s a year I still don’t understand, and that makes me wonder at what God is going to do with all of...

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Let Nothing You Dismay: Songs of Hope for Christmas 2020

Rev. Rob Yancey | 5 min read

In a piece titled “2020 broke Christmas music. Here’s what I’m listening to instead,” Michael Brodeur, the classical music critic for the Washington Post wrote this last week: “What if the songs of the season didn’t demand a mass emotional pivot, the obligations of cheer? What if they let in some of the cold? I’ve...

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Liturgical Reflections

Gary Black on Why “Silence” Matters at Christmas

Dr. Steven Garber | 8 min read

Now, but not yet. Everyone everywhere, sons of Adam and daughters of Eve that we are, sees the same world, and tries to make sense. We don’t have to be philosophers to do that; in fact sometimes philosophers miss it badly. What is required is that we be human beings— ordinary men and women who...

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