National Review: A Stained Glass Christmas, from Chartres to Baltimore’s Gilded Age
'Like painting in air' with colored light, John La Farge said of his church glass art. Much as Christmas shopping, for me, is a year-round practice, I hunt and gather Christmas stories starting in ...
MSN: Sleigh Your Holiday Decor with These DIY Stained Glass Christmas Ornaments
A quick internet search will provide you with numerous options to choose from when selecting a template for your stained glass projects. I am sharing my Christmas tree template with you below. My ...
Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...
The Best of Christmas Like many of history’s most enduring stories, this one took the most unlikely of turns. A virgin woman bears a child, promised by an angel and conceived by God. Born in a crowded town near Jerusalem, the infant has for His nursery a stable—His makeshift crib, a feeding trough. But shepherds worship the boy, and a powerful king fears Him. And when He has become a man ...
This post was first published . -ed. Meet another man who missed the first Christmas: Herod. Matthew 2 tells his story. He was...
The Real Meaning of Christmas The story’s told of a little girl who’s passing out the presents to her family on Christmas morning. After finding gifts for each member of her family, she was puzzled that there wasn’t a gift for the One whose birth was being commemorated. “I guess everyone forgot about Jesus,” she said. If you want a truly meaningful Christmas season, it stands to ...