by Rev. Crystal Muldrow Like many people, as a child the Fall/Winter holiday season was my favorite time of year. Halloween had an abundance of candy. Thanksgiving brought family from long distances back to me, and all of my favorite foods were in front of me to devour. Christmas provided me with stacks of gifts…
by Roger Mock The Winter Solstice, that time of deepest darkness and icy weather, is quite undeniably upon us. Let’s cue up the beginning of Christina Rossetti’s frost-bound poem (rimy rhyme?) to get us in the mood: In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone. The…