It’s early Tuesday morning. You shuffle into your study at the church, turn on the coffee maker, and open your laptop. While the coffee brews, you open your email to find a subject line that says “Is Jesus the True and Better Woman?” You open the message. It reads:
Author: Eric Schumacher
Suspecting Gillette: The Best the Church Can Get?
Gillette recently released a commercial, “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be,” addressing the #MeToo movement. It calls men to something better than misogyny, bullying, sexual harassment, and the objectifying of women. It encourages men to use their strength and influence to protect the weak, to treat other human beings with dignity and value, and…
My 2018 Book of the Year
I’m not a voluminous reader, mostly because I’m a slow reader. I plod through books. I’m not a great book reviewer by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t know that I’ve ever posted a “favorite book of the year” before. But this year, a late arrival emerged as a clear favorite.
A Christmas Prayer
Heavenly Father, We thank you this morning for the birth of King Jesus.
Peace on Earth — The 200th Anniversary of “Silent Night”
On Christmas Eve 1818, at Saint Nicholas parish church in Orbendorf (a village in the Austrian Empire), the carol “Silent Night” was first performed. The parish priest, Joseph Mohr, had composed the words the year before. River flooding had damaged the church organ, so Mohr asked Franz Xaver Gruber—an organist in a nearby village—to compose…