God and man
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD If you’ve read my previous two columns (“Getting Into the Christmas Spirit” and “The Incarnation”) you are perhaps aware, I am not celebrating the birth of Jesus…
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The incarnation
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] For years, I thought of Christmas as the celebration of Christ Jesus’ birthday, but perhaps I’ve matured a bit in my understanding. Now, I try to…
Getting into the Christmas spirit
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] A friend is getting into the Christmas spirit by not getting into the Christmas spirit. He will work Christmas Day, he will not participate in gift…
The Thanksgiving proclamation
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD The Thanksgiving Proclamation was first read publicly by Abraham Lincoln while the Civil War was raging and the nation uncertain of its outcome. The document is worth…
On Thankfullness
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD Thanksgiving was established as a National holiday by Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation on October 3, 1863—the middle of the Civil War. The holiday was to be observed…