That Which We Call A Rose…

Christmas = “Christ Mass” or “Feast of the Anointed One”
Wednesday = “The Day of Odin”
Thursday = ” The Day of Thor”
Friday = “The Day of Freya”
Saturday = “The Day of Saturn”

Can we JUST freakin’ get over the name?? Calling a dog a cat doesn’t make it a cat.

To some people, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of their saviour wrapped up in ancient “pagan” traditions and rampant secular commercialism. To others, Christmas is the celebration of the winter equinox wrapped up in ancient “pagan” traditions and rampant secular commercialism. To others, Christmas is the celebration of friends and family wrapped up in ancient “pagan” traditions and rampant secular commercialism.

Singing “The 12 Days of Christmas” in a public school will not lead to the breakdown of discipline and order.

Let me shout it from the top of Stone Mountain – “Christmas doesn’t belong to any one religion, culture, or group! You are all encouraged to GET OVER YOURSELVES.”

Barrington Bunny

By Martin Bell from the book The Way Of The Wolf

(I beg forgiveness from Martin Bell, but this Christmas story is just too beautiful not to share. I urge you to have a few tissues handy)

“You’re Listening To KBHR”

One of my favorite all time TV shows was Northern Exposure, and on that show, in one episode, came the best Christmas story and the most inclusive tidings of comfort and joy I have ever heard. It deserves to be repeated – and repeated – and repeated.

Chris, the local DJ, known for his love of Whitman, is on the radio one Christmas and shares this brief, but beautiful story of Christmas.

A Letter From Jesus

(This is not something I wrote. It is something I grokked from the internet a few years ago. I think it is entirely appropriate and “right”.)

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War On Christmas – the First Salvo

Years ago, I delivered a sermon about the origins of Christmas at the Unitarian church my wife and I attended. It was, understandably, well received by most of the congregation. In that sermon, I disclosed that the holiday we know as Christmas is not new, was around and in full swing long before the celebrated birth of Jesus, and that many, if not all, of the symbols of Christmas – from the manger to the tree – come from decidedly non-Christian sources. The fact is, “Christmas” doesn’t belong to Christians only, and Jesus is not the only “reason for the season”.