It COULD have looked like this, I suppose. Very creative!
Christmas Story Remixed
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Category Archives: Christmas
Commercialization and Christmas
We’re not breaking an new ground by connecting those two words above. However, I’ve never seen it put quite so concisely as in this anonymous quote:
Commercialization has obscured the meaning of Christmas. The commercial has become more important than the carol. What man has to sell more important than what God has given.
I like to think that the “Advent attitude” might aim at countering this unfortunate swap.
I’m not convinced my 2010 efforts towards Advent observation have had that type of impact as fully as they ought. But I’m not intending to be done with this Advent idea anytime soon, so perhaps future Christmases will be further rescued yet.
Christmas in July
If you can make any sense of the nativity scene to the right, then you’re brighter… or more twisted… than myself.
But odd manger ornaments aside, my Bible reading this morning was from Matthew 1-2–the “Christmas story”. Once through the name list of chapter one, I settled in for the familiar flow of events. Along the way, I noted a couple things that I’d not thought before… Continue reading
Wake Up the World
I know I’m late, but this is my new favourite Christmas song.
Thank you J.J. Heller.
Advent Conspiracy
So this morning, I saw that Advent Conspiracy is front page news at Yahoo!. If you don’t yet know what this growing movement is about, this should fill you in, in under three minutes…