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The birth of Jesus Christ may be the “reason for the season,” but for millions of children the man of the moment is Santa Claus. While it is widely known that the Santa Claus of Christmas is derived from St. Nicholas, few know much about the original Saint Nick beyond the fact that he did [...]

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Today is the first of the 12 Days of Thorns, during which we contemplate the tragic errors of the past.  This dozenal opens the Spring Interval, also called the Rose Season. The first Day of Thorns is Lucifer’s Day, marking the anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea in which the Josiac error of conflating [...]

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Reform Unitarianism feels a particularly close kinship with the Roman Catholic Church, despite that it is the institution that adopted the apostasy of Trinitarianism.  Roman Catholicism retains the sense of the ancient pedigree of Christianity, which more recent off-shoots (which nevertheless imagine themselves reformatory) fail to project. This is why it pains us to witness [...]

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Today is Saint Nicholas Day! While it is widely known that the Santa Claus of Christmas is derived from St. Nicholas, few know much about the original Saint Nick beyond the fact that he did not live at the North Pole, own flying reindeer, or employ a workshop full of elves. Nicholas of Myra was [...]

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Theology Matters In an age when the philosophical undercurrents of theology are considered by most believers to be largely irrelevant to the practical concerns of social and political action, when many would say the only thing that matters in religion is “being a good person,” the questions debated in the earliest centuries of the church [...]

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