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Maimonides: What Lessons Can He Teach Us Today?
BY ROBERT ROSENWALD Maimonides would remind us that the Abrahamic religions are fundamentally Middle Eastern migrating siblings.
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There’d be No Santa Claus without St. Nicholas: Remembering the Saint behind the Legend
BY ANNA TROTTA GITHENS Credit should be given where credit is due: Santa wouldn’t exist if St. Nicholas, the bishop of Myra, hadn’t existed.
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Lady Judith
Don’t ask me why, but Lady Judith had lived here year-round ever since her husband, Manasseh, died at the barley harvest three years before.
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C. S. Lewis and the Calormenes: A Critique of Narnia’s Arabesque Baddies
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Lewis wasn’t in it for accuracy as much as to spin a colorful yarn that stoked the imaginations of mostly Western, Christian children.
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The Christ
BY TIMOTHY MATHER I am the Water of Life that quenches thirst always. I am the Word spread to the four corners by the wind.
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The Jeweler’s Apprentice: Chapter 20
BY E. KAISER WRITES “I got an apprenticeship, and this sort of happened with it. Father knows all about it, Evin.”
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Burnt: A Harry Potter Serial- Chapter 31: Dumbledore’s Fate
By LastCrazyHorn Word Count: 105891 Rating: PG-13 for brief language, violence, and depictions of abuse Summary: A disabled Harry comes to Hogwarts story. Everyone expects him to be like his dad, but how can he be with such a different past? A Slytherin Harry takes on Hogwarts in an unusual way Snape shook off Moody’s hand with
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A Short Discourse on Friendship
BY SARAH LEVESQUE There’s nothing particular wrong with any of these types of friendships, as long as you are both on the same page.
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Kinana’s Chronicle
BY JANETTA MUNIRAH MACLEAN “Ya Allah, you are the Fashioner and the Maker and the Knower and Shaper of destiny. Please, please help me.”
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“And Still to Their Goal the Rivers Go”
The river currents flow, and so do we And find our sunlit dreams upon the sea
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Angels of Music: A Phantom of the Opera Story
“Tonight I sing your words for you, alone.”
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I Saw Santa Punching Arius: Saint Nicholas at the Council of Nicaea
BY IAN T. WILSON Some of the most saintly people I know lose their tempers on occasion, and this was one of those occasions.
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A First Christmas Reflection
BY ASHLEY WENGERD The Bible says that God existed in the beginning, and Jesus is God, so obviously Jesus knew that He had to come down to earth.
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Christmas Morning
God came to us. His journey began as a seed. The smallest treasure, placed by the mightiest hand into the secret place of a daughter of Adam, that we in good time may receive.
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Captured from Bondage: A Christian Reflection on Following God
BY KETURAH LAMB Following God is simple, and it’s complex. It’s easy. It’s hard. It’s all about relationship.
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The Outburst
BY JACINTA BOUDREAU No matter how plain, or successful in life, all are called to the feast, by the Father, through Christ.
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The Minstrel and the Apple: A Story of Avalon and Robin Hood
BY T.K. WILSON “Father promised me his lands when I turned eighteen and my own choice of husband! Both are mine as of tomorrow morning!”
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My Favorite Things
Traditions of old and the Blessed Virgin Mary Flowers and trees and a pretty pixie fairy Christmas carols that make me dance and sing These are a few of my favorite things