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Advent Devotional Reading
If anyone was looking for an historic understanding of Advent devotion, I’d heartily recommend them to look to the work of St. Ephraim the Syrian. He wrote a great Hymn for Christmas that you can...
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St. Nicholas: Bruce Wayne of the Ancient Church
Since I’ve been posting on Advent, I thought I’d also examine the Christian History of Santa. Most people know that Santa Claus also possesses the moniker: Saint Nic. Yet does anyone know who St....
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Middle-Eastern Syncretism and Christmas
Apparently the issue of non-Christians celebrating Christmas was not merely a modern Western phenomena. Philip Jenkins’ book on Middle Eastern and Oriental Christendom quotes one source that...
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Augustinian Spirituality, Advent, and the English Civil War(s)
One of the Great Anglican divines, Jeremy Taylor, lived through the chaotic period of the English Civil War(s) (1642-1651). During this time period the Church of England had its bishops removed, the...
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Reforming Advent: 'Kris Kringle'
For students of history a fundamental law of the discipline seems to be that history is simply doomed to repeat itself. As we’ve looked at Advent traditions throughout the previous posts we’ve gone...
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