
From Annoying Christmas Carols to Mystic Wisdom
The Christmas Carol, “the 12 days of Christmas,” has been called the “most annoying” of all Christmas carols and perhaps “the most effective way to
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The Christmas Carol, “the 12 days of Christmas,” has been called the “most annoying” of all Christmas carols and perhaps “the most effective way to

Yesterday we spoke of the “throne of glory” from which the stern warrior and wisdom leap in the silence and darkness of Christmas eve “to

Our recent meditations have considered meanings of advent and Christmas. How Advent can be our awakening more fully, our becoming more present to the deepest

We saw yesterday that Julian, like Aquinas before her and like Genesis one, finds a deep and primary goodness in nature. She frequently refers to

Recently, Rabbi Michael Lerner offered a reminder that “Hanukkah is not just for Jews.” I agree. Great feast days of all the world’s religions invariably

We are exploring the Christian tradition for what it has to teach us about an unsentimental Christmas and a pre-capitalist Christmas and a sense of

A long history in Christianity proposes that Christmas and Advent are about our birth as other Christs, Cosmic Christs, sons and daughters of God. Amidst

Are Advent and Christmas meant to be reminders of Divinity and the Christ being born in us? Meister Eckhart invokes Clement of Alexander who writes: “The baptized,

We are meditating with Meister Eckhart on a deeper and more adult understanding of Advent and Christmas, and how both commemorate how humans are to

For Meister Eckhart, the meaning of Christmas is our being born as the sons or daughters of God. He says: It would mean little to
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