Warning – Muslim Approaching Christmas
When a party of Christians visited Prophet Muhammad (saw), in Madinah, he invited them, while they stayed, to sleep and say their prayers in the masjid. Sometime before, he had come to Madinah with the…
Month: December 2021
The Lantern and the Lamb
The lantern wound its way up the hill, three figures hunched around its meagre light. One of the shepherds held something swaddled tight in his fleece jacket, along with the warm stones they’d brought from…
Decorating for Christmas – “What Can I Do?”
by Lawrence Hall A little girl tugged at my arm and asked “But what can I do?” I sent her to Senora Anil because I didn’t know She came to me again and sadly…
Forgive Yourself: A Chronicles of Narnia Story
Eustace sat cross-legged on the Pevensies' sitting room floor, tongue sticking out in concentration as he strung another piece of popcorn onto the garland that already spanned half the room. "Look at this one," cooed…
Christmas 1836: A Sweeney Todd Story
Five years after he is taken, what is Christmas like for Benjamin Barker and his loved ones? He’d long ago given up fighting. Solitary confinement was its own hellhole. It taught him his lesson, and…
Autumn Adventures – First of Autumn: 05
Bert and Betty were just fine, they were huddled up in the middle of the barn, listening to the gnawing of the kandacs. As soon as the kandacs had left the box, they scurried off…
The Tash Files – Chapter 20 – Trufflehunter
My Dear Ream, Do you remember the great speech that I gave when you and your despicable colleagues graduated from Temptation University? I told you all that my splendid goal for this terrible world was…
Sometimes it Snows in Bethlehem
Author’s Note: The story below is true. Bless you all on this Christmas season and may you each receive a Christmas Miracle. And may we contemplate on that cold starry night the Blessed Mother…
Susan of Narnia: Remembering (The Eighth Chronicle of Narnia) – Chapter Ten: The Conversation
“How came you to hear of that?” Susan hissed, looking all about her lest anyone overhear either of them. Mr and Mrs Bryant were too far away, both of them talking to an older man.…
We Are Saved by the Incarnation: The Celtic Teaching of Eriugena
There is an ancient Celtic belief, taught to us by Eriugena, that salvation happened primarily through the incarnation rather than the crucifixion. It was the bringing together of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, creator…