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The Myth Campaign
Call me crazy, but I have been waiting to see this year’s anti-Christmas ad campaign by the American Atheists organization. Last year, they introduced their myth campaign on a large billboard on the...
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The Stress of the Season
I was a seven year-old kid living on Globe Street in San Antonio, Texas in 1963 — the year that Andy Williams recorded a brand new Christmas song entitled, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”...
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Little Bits of Christmas
The month of December is a good month in which to take inventory of how we have lived over the previous year and to consider course corrections before the new year. This is also a good time to...
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La Tamalada
"Tamalada" | Painted by Carmen Lomas Garza Whenever I hear the word “tradition” I can’t help but think of Tevye, the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof whose struggle to maintain his Jewish traditions was...
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A Life-Changing Trip
Speaking at Pastors' Meeting | Donetsk, Ukraine Photographs are like keys. Yesterday, my good friend Doug Hanks sent me a photo taken on a trip I led to Ukraine in 1996. One look at that photo was all...
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A Malaysian Tamalada
Earlier this month I posted a blog about the history of the humble tamale and about my wife Cheryl’s tamalada or tamale-making party. My memories of Christmas are not only anchored to the people and...
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The Christmas Truce
Something remarkable and unexpected happened on the first Christmas of the first World War, only five months after the outbreak of war in Europe. Allied and German troops were engaged in trench warfare...
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Keep the Merry Campaign
It’s Christmas and, once again, atheists have launched their annual holiday evangelism initiative into high gear, hoping to attract like-minded folks into their fold. As in previous years, I have...
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The Best Job in the World
It’s Christmas and I am on the road once again — but, this time, in my own time zone. I am in Corpus Christi to visit with my wife’s family. This morning Cheryl and I got up early and headed to the...
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Our Family Tree
Many years ago my mother planted a seed in the backyard of our family’s home in McAllen, Texas. She was especially excited about this particular seed — one she had taken from a gnarled brown seed pod...
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I Need Christ
“Who needs Christ during Christmas?” is this year’s annual anti-Christmas initiative by the secular atheist group known as American Atheists. The campaign comes as no surprise. Every year, atheist and...
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‘Tis the Season
‘Tis the season, once again, when atheist activists bash the reason for the season. In previous years, atheists groups have targeted urban audiences in places like New York and London. This year,...
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The Other Wise Man
I love a good story, especially the seasonal Christmas stories that I have enjoyed since I was a kid. My first exposure to “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens was in an imaginatively illustrated...
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Losing Sight of Jesus
Perhaps the easiest thing for us to do at Christmas is to allow the frantic pace of the season to cause us to lose sight of Jesus. Instead of slowing down enough to see Jesus clearly, we tend to speed...
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Tell Heartwarming Stories
Christmas is a time that naturally lends itself to telling stories. When my kids were little they often acted out the Christmas story — borrowing a doll for the role of baby Jesus and crafting...
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An Atheist Christmas
The group known as American Atheists have once again launched their annual anti-Christmas billboard campaign. Two years ago, their signature piece featured a little girl with a mischievous look writing...
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On the Feast of Stephen
“Good King Wenceslas” is one of the lesser-known Christmas carols and yet one with a beautiful message. In brief, the carol is about a king and his page who set off on a cold winter day to help a less...
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