“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God – for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who proclaim that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him.God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. ”
1 John 4:7-16
Merry Christmas!
Recently I was interviewed by Wrecked for the Ordinary, the website of some very interesting young Christians whose mission statement reads: “Our hearts truly desire beauty, seeking it in all aspects of creation. This section features those who find it and capture it so well in their creative work.”
Read a card from your Father 
Even though we know that the Kingdom of God can suddenly break into anyone’s life at any time, it comes as a jolt to come across an invasion into the world of the detective novel. But that’s what happens in the third volume of Andrew Klavan’s masterful Weiss/Bishop trilogy, the accurately named, Damnation Alley. 
The always provocative “Spengler” at Asia Times has a very strong essay, “Why You Pretend to Like Modern Art”
