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The 40 days of fasting before Christmas are meant to prepare us for the Feast of the Nativity, but the busyness of the secular celebration can interfere with our best efforts to center our hearts on Christ. Behold a Great Light is a daily devotional, designed to help listeners contemplate the mysteries of the Incarnation, from the beginning of the Nativity fast on November 15, through Christmas and Theophany, ending with the Synaxis of St. John the Baptist on January 7.

In Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, Ben M. Freeman, inspired by his experiences with LGBTQ+ pride, aims to educate, inspire and empower Jewish people to reject the shame of antisemitism imposed on Jews by the non-Jewish world as well as non-Jewish perceptions of what it means to be a Jew, enabling them to begin the process of defining their own identities as proud Jews through Jewish experience, Jewish history, and Jewish values.

Normally, I do the saving, but when I see your smile or hear your laugh, my heart explodes inside my chest and the only life that needs to be saved is my own. You are magic. The kind of magic that erases everything and anything in the world when you’re in my arms. You are my soul mate. You are my destiny. Hold onto hope. Tuck it away into the heart that I ache to be mine and don’t let him find it. I will save you from him - from the man whose evil is the stuff of nightmares. I will not let your homicide become the next case on my desk.