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12/26/2025

PSA: For those wondering... it's just a decoration 🎅😅

12/25/2025

✨🎄 Merry Christmas, everyone! May your day be filled with love, laughter, and the magic of the season.

12/25/2025

Good Faith Media wishes you a very Merry Christmas 🎄You can enjoy a variety of holiday reflections on our website: goodfaithmedia.org

12/23/2025

Jerome Enriquez John: To attend church on Christmas day in insecure regions is an act of courage. To sing hymns in a threatened village is a quiet refusal to surrender identity to terror.

Faith here is not decorative; it is functional, sustaining communities where the state’s protection is unreliable and justice feels distant. But resilience should never be romanticized to excuse injustice.

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Nigeria’s Christmas challenges Christians everywhere to reconsider what the season truly represents.

12/23/2025

Rebecca M. David Hensley: As Christians once again await the inbreaking of God’s incarnate love with expectant hearts, it’s easy to feel weary at the current state of the world.

In my United Methodist tradition, we often sing different verses of the hymn, “Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel” throughout the Advent season and into Christmas Eve. This year, these verses hit different.

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Choosing to stand with our immigrant neighbors is what it means to embody “God with us” as we head into year two of the Trump regime.

12/23/2025

Craig Nash: Sadly, the Revised Common Lectionary doesn’t assign a scripture reading to the high holy day of Festivus. If it did, I imagine it would be one in which Jesus called his audience a “brood of vipers” (Matthew 12:34) or the prophet Hosea referred to God’s people as “children of whoredom” (Hosea 1:2).

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What does Festivus have to do with Christmas? More than you might think. A reflection on Dickens, darkness, and carrying the light.

12/23/2025

𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙛𝙛! Cally Chisholm 🎉📱

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆/𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲: Knoxville, Tennessee

𝗙𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗯: Creating the daily social media content and designing the "Good Faith Magazine."

𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: I am a proud graduate of Ozarks Technical Community College and Missouri Southern State University. I am currently in graduate school at the University of Tennessee.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀? "West End Girl" by Lily Allen and "LUX" by Rosalía.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱? Maria Ressa won a Nobel Peace Prize for "How to Stand Up to A Dictator"— a book about social media's impact on elections and the alarming rise of democratically elected authoritarians. Maria documents her personal experience running an independent news organization during the Duterte regime in the Philippines and how the government targeted her for reporting on the human rights abuses taking place.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹? Take frequent breaks from the screen. Learn how to spot AI fakes. Read more books. Support your local museums and libraries. Think before posting. Together we can make our online spaces safer and more enjoyable.

12/22/2025

Paul Wallace: Normal stars do not appear suddenly from nowhere. The wise men, who were really magi or astrologers, were intimately familiar with the night sky and would not have been surprised or even particularly interested in the regular appearance of even the brightest of known stars.

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An exploration of the Star of Bethlehem in Matthew’s Gospel, examining five leading theories—from astronomy to literary symbolism—behind the biblical mystery.

12/22/2025

Starlette Thomas: "Jesus came down to earth not as a pompous mystery but as an unlikely savior. With Mary’s help, God reached out to us in the arms of a baby. No appointment needed.

The God of the Christian faith tradition is not above being human. Walking among us wasn’t beneath the dignity of the Divine."

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Much of the wrestle with my calling to Christian ministry has been against the forms it has taken in the North American church. As a woman of humble beginnings, I was glad to know Jesus could relate, only to find out some preachers didn’t want to.

12/21/2025

Christmas can be an upsetting time for many people for a variety of reasons ❤️‍🩹

Kali Cawthon-Freels reminds us to face the more difficult side of the holidays.

Today is the Winter Solstice and many churches will have "Longest Night" services this evening for those who need time to sit with their grief and sorrow.

12/20/2025

BEST OF 2025: Word is getting out about Good Faith Media 🎉 2025 has been an incredible year for GFM as an organization—building our audience and engaging with folks online is a critical part of our work.

We have seen major increases in our social media numbers: engagement, shares, video views, and more!

Thank you all for reading, listening, and sharing.

12/20/2025

"This Christmas, I give thanks to each of you who join us in the work." —Cliff Vaughn, senior media producer ✨

Do you have a favorite ornament? Share your photos with us in the comments 🎄❄️