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Spilled Milk: Brokeback Bethlehem

William Lucas Walker | Posted 02.22.2013 | Parents
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William Lucas Walker

The 2005 Christmas pageant of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, for what I'm guessing was the first time in recorded history, Jesus had two daddies.

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Demolishing A Christmas Fixation

Charles Redfern | Posted 02.23.2012 | Religion
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Charles Redfern

My thoughts turn to God, who chose to live as a human being, beginning as a baby. God did not merely appear human or become similar to a human. God was human, stripped of divinity's power.

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When Virgin Mary Statues Started To Move

Fortean Times | Posted 02.19.2012 | Weird News
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In the summer of 1985,statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary all over Ireland started to move - at least according to the thousands-strong crowds who floc...

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Newborn God: A Christmas Meditation On The Birth of Jesus

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Rev. James Martin, S.J.

How overwhelming the first Christmas must have been for Mary and Joseph. Few things can provoke such intense worry as a newborn child. But few things promise such unreasonable hope, such unexpected change and such unbounded joy.

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The World's Most Bizarre Christmas Traditions

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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For children of all ages, Christmas conjures up enchanting visions of snowflakes, sleigh rides and sugar plums. But while the holidays may be universa...

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The Virgin Mary: Spiritual Sister

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Cathleen Falsani

Scared child. Proud parent. Beloved icon. Soul sister. In her startlingly beautiful new book, author Judith Dupre uses each of these phrases to describe the Virgin Mary. It is the last -- "soul sister" -- that sparked my imagination.

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GPS, Hidden Cameras Watch Over Baby Jesus

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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When Baby Jesus disappeared last year from a Nativity scene on the lawn of the Wellington, Fla., community center, village officials didn't follow a s...

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