“It’s a Wonderful Life” is the Gospel transposed onto celluloid. The message is the same in both.

So, who is Mary? Like any other character in the Gospel, we are meant to try on her life in meditation, to learn from her what it means to be a disciple. Mary is one of us.

The Christmas season is not your savior. Christ is. Your inability to feel joy in response to a season says nothing about your relationship to your savior.

A do-over. Who has not wanted one, at times with no little desperation? That’s what God gives us in Christ.

It’s hard to know how to live without hope. Is it even possible?

Religion is what happens when spirituality moves from speculation and desire into participation and commitment.