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A Favorite Christmas Musing – Puking Angels and Farting Sheep

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Greendale Peoples Church in Worcester, MA is famous for its wonderful Christmas pageants. "Angels Among Us" makes use of young and old alike taking the roles of angels, prophets, shepherds, magi, Mary, and Joseph as well as a large cast called "the people of the world" who process to the manger at the end of the show dressed in ethnic costumes representing all of humanity. And there are live animals too - yes in the sanctuary! - sheep, goats and Chester the donkey who brings Mary down the aisle to "Bethlehem." It's a fabulous pageant! One year I had [READ MORE]

A Favorite Christmas Musing – Babies Do Not Know Sin

Do you know that babies do not know sin? A number of years ago, my colleague co-pastor and I divided up the list of families we knew who were going through hard times and needed the support of the church. We had some baskets of food, and wrapped presents for the kids, and even a little bit of money to help them out at the holidays. One of the families I visited that year wasn’t much of a family. It was just a young girl who lived with her on-again, off-again drug-addicted boyfriend. She had a drug problem too. [READ MORE]