Reggie Kidd News Today

“O God, by the passion of your blessed Son you made an instrument of shameful death to be for us the means of life: Grant us so to glory in the cross of Christ, that we may gladly suffer shame and loss for the sake of your Son our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

By Dr. Reggie Kidd Many churches sing Christmas carols throughout the month of December. Mine doesn’t. Instead, during the four weeks before Christmas, we sing songs and pray prayers and contemplate Scriptures of yearning. We yearn for the coming. We yearn for peace on earth. We yearn for the return of the King. This year the yearning takes on a particular piquancy. We yearn for the end of pandemic. We yearn for racial reckoning and reconciliation. We yearn for safety in the streets. We yearn...