If you insist to a friend that the ‘real meaning of Christmas’ is the birth of Jesus Christ, there are two kinds of response you’re likely to get. (more…)
Tag Archives: Christmas
Christmas books for children
Couldn't Help Noticing
Giving ourselves
Invasion
Word Watch
Christmas WordWatch
The crimes of Claus
Couldn't Help Noticing
Thanks for the toilet
Couldn't Help Noticing
Midnight Mass for Protestants
Interchange
Tis the season … to think outside the square
So this is Christmas …
The subversive
Life
You know subversives. They are the people who quietly undermine stable government and accepted institutions. They’re usually regarded as a threat to all that is good and ordered in society. They’re a threat, because they want to turn everything on its head.
Something worth harking about
Come home for Christmas
Christmas and the birth of Jesus: An interview with Dr Paul Barnett
Why do we celebrate Christmas on the 25th December each year? Do we know the exact date of Jesus birth?
To my knowledge, the exact date when Jesus was born is unknown. While we are on increasingly firm ground for the date of his death—early April 33—there’s no sure way of discovering the date of his birth.