“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.”Matthew 6:34 A New Year is upon us. It's that time for us to make our resolutions, to hit the gym in January and stop going sometime in February. It's that time to give ourselves goals to engineer “new” selves. But how much...

The Virgin is with child...On the roads they pass by pagan Greeks and Samaritans and fellow Jews, shepherds and slaves and soldiers and traders, and divers others who along their way see naught more than a man and wife from Galilee.from The Rose: A Meditation Caesar, whom they called the son of the gods, demanded a census be taken throughout...