Why Our Family Began Celebrating Hanukkah
As I continued studying the Maccabees, I also began learning about the traditions through which Jewish communities have observed Hanukkah across generations.
The earliest Maccabean ...
Year: 2025
What Is Hanukkah? Discovering the Story of the Maccabees
As we began learning about the biblical feasts, we often found ourselves looking at the Jewish calendar.
At first, it was practical. The Hebrew calendar ...
Why Our Family Stopped Celebrating Easter
By this point in our journey, we had been learning about and observing the biblical feasts for several years. Through them, we were discovering ...
Why Some Christians Question Easter Traditions
Not long after we began asking questions about Christmas, another holiday came into focus.
Easter.
Once again, I found myself asking simple but important questions.
Why do ...
Why We Ultimately Let Go of Christmas
Letting go of Christmas was not an easy decision, and it did not happen overnight.
Christmas had always been part of our lives. It carried ...
Why We Started Questioning Christmas as Christians
As we continued studying Scripture and learning about the biblical feasts, something interesting began to happen.
We noticed that we were observing the appointed times ...
How Passover Led Me to Write My Own Haggadah
As our family adjusted to one new practice, another question usually followed. Eventually, that next question became Passover. While attending the synagogue, we participated ...
The Sabbath That Became Ours
I began by asking a friend what the Bible says about honoring the Sabbath. I remembered several instructions: to remember and set the day ...
Testing Traditions: How I Learned to Weigh Everything Against Scripture
Asking Where a Practice Came From
One of the things I’ve always tried to do is learn the history and purpose of a belief or ...
When My Faith Journey Became Lonely
When Sharing Became Difficult
Sad to say, some of my relationships began to feel thinner. When I shared the experiences I was having, something often ...