What to do about Christmas?
"A Grinch, A Witch, and the Liberation of Christmas (Luke 1:26-38) I hold in my hands the essential tools for liberating Christmas from its captivity to North American capitalistic, consumeristic culture. The Dr. Seuss tale How the Grinch Stole Christmas ; C. S. Lewis's Narnia story, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ; the “Christian Seasons Calendar”; and the Bible. In U. S. News & World Report a few years ago, Jeffrey Sheler surveyed what he called "the battle for Christmas." His thesis was: from the time when Christians began celebrating Christ's birth (which surprisingly seems not to be until the fourth century when the Roman ...