Year six of the blog is now complete! Thanks once again to all of you who have joined me here! As I like to do, I thought I’d take some time at year’s end to look at the most popular posts from the past year, along with a few posts that mean a lot to … Continue reading Best of the Blog, 2023
An annual ‘best of’ my reading year post has become a tradition for me since 2017 (2017-18, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). I read some unbelievably great books in 2023, so without further ado. let’s get to the books! (Note, this was originally published on my bookish blog yesterday.) 15. Talking at Night, by Claire Daverley … Continue reading Top 15 Reads of 2023
[Note: Some churches (including my own) replace the readings for Christmas 1 with those for Epiphany, but I’m not ready to leave Christmas behind just yet — Epiphany isn’t for another six days! — so I’m sticking with the Christmas 1 readings. If you’d like an Epiphany-focused reflection today, feel free to check out here … Continue reading Turning Point: A Reflection on Luke 2.22-41
This is my annual post encouraging readers to be intentional about ending the year, and starting the new one, as well as possible. Every year, I spend my morning quiet time in the days between Christmas and New Years treating the process of looking back at the year that was and ahead to the year … Continue reading Year-End Practices, Again!
The message of Christmas is that God is with us -- all of us.
Matthew Root 