Advent – Page 4 – Red Letter Christians

The Better Beard at Christmas: Santa or John the Baptist?

December 23, 2011

buy cheap cialisI’ve never donned a beard or red suit for Christmas. So far that’s my personal line. But something happens when you have kids. Categories of cool, kitsch, hip, or tacky no longer matter m...

Chinese Christmas: Always Winter and Never Christmas

Morf Morford

December 22, 2011

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In mainland China, at least in 1999, they didn’t celebrate – or even acknowledge – Christmas. The lingering brutal winters fit that line from “The lion, the witch and the wardrobe” where Narnia is describe...

A Season for Mischief and Conspiracy: A New Take on Christmas Charity

Shane Claiborne

December 20, 2011

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Critiquing the thick irony of the Christmas season is fair. It's ludicrous that we celebrate the birth of the homeless baby Jesus by indulging in the biggest consumer spending of the year, scurrying around ...

Christmas: The Season of Grieving

Katrina Smith

December 19, 2011

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Christmas is known for being the season of giving, good cheer and peace with all men. It’s where families come together for food, gifts, fellowship and celebration. It’s sparkling lights, Christmas music ...

Of Mice And MIN…ISTERS (Ode to Advent and Axl Rose)

Bert Montgomery

December 18, 2011

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I've heard it said that Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was, and still is, an angry, angry man. I have no reason to doubt it. There simply is no denying that they literally burst forth into the nation's con...

Taking the SEX out of Sex-mas!

Kurt Willems

December 16, 2011

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Then one foggy Sex-mas Eve, Victoria came to say: Consumer with your eyes so wide, buy this bra and panties tonight. Twenty-year-old young women wearing unmentionables stare into the camera saying: “Tell me ...

War on Christmas

Morf Morford

December 15, 2011

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And then there are those who rouse our passions about a “War on Christmas”. I found this tedious last year, and the year before, and the year before… But this compromise is as old as the Christmas story its...

Occupy the Manger: How God Does Revolution

Morgan Guyton

December 12, 2011

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Occupy the manger. I’m sick of phrases that begin with occupy. But that’s what God did. He occupied a manger in the form of a baby born to a poor pregnant teen whose fiancé believed she was a virgin and refu...

Soundgarden, John Mayer, Bowling Alleys and Advent

Christian Piatt

December 5, 2011

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My eight-year-old son, Mattias, just recently had his eighth birthday, complete with a magician, bunnies, doves, party favors, sugar, balloons, cards, effusive attention and – of course – gifts. S...