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Quotations to stir heart and mind

Fresh inspiration comes in the strangest places.

What do you say to Christmas-and-Easter-Only attenders?

Inside the minds of holiday-only attenders.

That's how Advent feels to me some years.

"When the Holy Family fled Bethlehem, Herod's evil became a blessing for Egypt"

Is George Bush now leader of the religious right?

On a memorable London night, the bright and glistening theology of Messiah broke through my jet-lagged consciousness.

Inside the minds of holiday-only attenders.

How shall we reconcile the glorious birth of the Savior with the bloody deaths of the boys of Bethlehem?