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By Leah Silvieus '21 M.A.R. As a bored high schooler, Travis Helms ’13 M.Div. was flipping through an English literature anthology when he stumbled across T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Afterward, he recalls, he was shaking, astonished that a poem could make him feel a mystical communion with someone who had been dead for half a century. From then on, he

I never had kids and when I look at Facebook friends' photos of their own I realize that that's probably a good thing. I am a graduate of the school of hard

Christmas finds Christians around the world gathering to celebrate Jesus birth. But does the Bible really cite December 25 as the date the Son of God was born?

MILFORD — Precious Blood Parish recently held its annual Blessing of the Animals...

Emmanuel Episcopal Church welcomes interim priest Community Content Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Wakefield recently welcomed the Rev. Stephanie Chase Bradbury as interim priest.  Her appointment by the church’s vestry follows the departure of the Rev. Matthew P. Cadwell, Ph.D., after 12 years of ministry in Wakefield.  “I feel incredibly blessed to be a part of the rich history of this parish which has served the greater Wakefield community for over 150 years,” said the Rev. Bradbury. S...

ONE of the most powerful, persistent fake news that has been around for many centuries is that December 25 is the birthday of Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, the biggest religion today with 2.4 billion adherents. This is not opinion or conjecture, but has been a well-established fact, even by Catholic scholars. Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine Callet: The first Christmas celebrations? The only other competing thesis of course, is that the man called Jesus has never existed. Indeed...