When Voting Your Conscience Becomes Unconscionable

When Voting Your Conscience Becomes Unconscionable

By Janet Surette     My country is groaning.   Its upcoming election will be historic one way or the other. It will either bring relief from the assault on its economy, morality, and identity, or it will quite literally, tear the country apart as maps...
A Miss Understanding

A Miss Understanding

A Message to Young Women from a Could-Have-Been Trans Man   Sometimes, my sisters would call me John. I hated all things girly. The only Barbie I owned was Western Barbie because she wore pants and had a truck & trailer. My most memorable Christmas gift was a...
Day 7: Six Miles Short of a Savior

Day 7: Six Miles Short of a Savior

Though the narrative of the Wise Men’s journey contains epic adventure, big-time players, a supernatural cosmic phenomenon, and God in the flesh, one of the most striking parts of the entire account is what doesn’t happen. When a perturbed Herod assembles the Jewish...
Day 6: Respond If You Please

Day 6: Respond If You Please

Growing up, many of us would learn about the wise men, but have we ever considered that we could learn from them? God’s invitation to a human heart requires a response, and the wise men show us how it’s done. They Seek. Throughout our entire text, the wise men seek...
Day 5: A Long Time Coming

Day 5: A Long Time Coming

After their secret conference with Herod, the wise men took his advice and turned toward Bethlehem. Up to this point, one could argue that their getting this far was merely happenstance. Jewish exiles happened to talk about the future promises of their God. These...