Why You Never Ask Yoda to Lead Christmas Carols:
Wrap Like a Pro: Make gifts look so tantalizing that they wink from under the tree
The Digital Story of the Nativity:
Bus driver flattens snowman, loses job
Ten Questions to Ask at a Christmas Gathering: “Many of us struggle to make conversation at Christmas gatherings…, having to chat with people we rarely see or have never met. We simply don't know what to say to those with whom we feel little in common. Moreover, as Christians we want to take advantage of the special opportunities provided by the Christmas season to share our faith, but are often unsure how to begin. Here's a list of questions designed not only to kindle a conversation in almost any Christmas situation, but also to take the dialogue gradually to a deeper level.” See the list here.
“Too many recent Christmas tunes suffer from an embarrassment about being happy, with lyrics that are downright downers. The famine-relief fund-raising song from 1984, ‘Do They Know It's Christmas?’ may be admirable in intent, but it doesn't make for a particularly festive mood. ‘Grown-Up Christmas List,’ sung by Amy Grant, among others, is a pompous killjoy. And the less said about those maudlin ‘Christmas Shoes’ the better.” From a WSJ article on why there was an explosion of new Christmas music mid-century that has lasted—and why that hasn’t been the case since.
I’d walk a mile to avoid this camel:
And the Baptist Press story on the camel fail here.
LifeWay Survey: For many, Jesus isn't the reason for the season
Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?
Free Christmas music from Target and from Amazon.
Pandora: Another way to have free and commercial-free holiday music.
Church's 'iBand' performs Christmas carols entirely on iPads and iPhones
12 Kooky Christmas Album Covers
'Hallelujah' Comes to the Food Court: Why one performance of Handel's Messiah has attracted an audience of over 7 million.
A Charlie Brown Christmas debuted in December 1965. Half of America tuned in, and it garnered glowing reviews. In a WaPo piece about the experience:
In writing about the “Peanuts” special in “Manhood for Amateurs,” Chabon — a self-described Jewish “liberal agnostic empiricist” — waxed: “I still know that chapter and verse of the Gospel of Luke by heart, and no amount of subsequent disillusionment with the behavior of self-described Christians, or with the ongoing progressive commercialization that in 1965 had already broken Charlie Brown’s heart, has robbed the central miracle of Christianity of its power to move me the way any truly great story can.” (HT: TMatt at GetReligion)
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