Nativity | Nativity
Dec.24.2012
When you are a former believer, Christmas offers a few challenges. I suspect they are very different challenges from the ones experienced by Americans of other faiths—Muslim, Jewish, Hindu—when this massive, inescapable holiday roles around. But they’re enough to inspire quite a few blogs, I...
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Dec.07.2012
When I was little, we had a couple of Christmas traditions that I still think are pretty swell. We had a tree, my dad would string lights around the front door, and piles of presents would miraculously appear on Christmas morning. My sister and I could select our favorite toy to take...
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Jan.12.2010
(c) 2010 Jeanne Powell"Finding Christmas 2009"all rights reserved
Finding Christmas is an adventure in our society. Since our national economy is dominated by one philosophy and that system controls the advertising industry, only one set of values is promulgated 24 hours a day. It...
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Dec.25.2009
Holidays come, and holidays go; with vignettes or snippets of memorable moments clinging to the neurons of your brains to resurface at some point in the future as fond memories. Looking, like Scrooge, at the ghosts of Christmas Past, I have many of these.
There’re the fun times as a kid in rural...
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