by Tom Goodman
“Santa doesn’t prepare you for disillusionment—he prepares you for belief.” Here’s Rich Cohen in the WSJ explaining the faith value of the Santa story. Nah, there’s neither harm nor benefit that the Santa story brings to a child’s nascent Christian faith. So, on the one hand, I really don’t think that the Santa story makes it harder for kids to believe the other things, the serious faith things, that parents tell them. But neither do I believe Cohen is correct to say Santa is “a kind of training-wheel Jesus, presenting aspects of faith in a manner that kids can handle.”
What was Jon Bon Jovi’s first professional credit? If you said, “For the track ‘R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas’” you’d be right. It’s on 1980’s Star Wars themed Christmas in the Stars. Evidence.
White Christmas, Black Christmas: Though minority and white evangelical Protestants have more in common than any other Christian groups, they are deeply divided on matters of race and justice.
“Religion is not in decline so much as inherited religion is in decline." WSJ profiles Tim Keller. If clicking the link doesn't give you the whole article, you can pass the pay wall by entering the title in a search engine and clicking the results. Here’s the link.
"The second man to walk on the moon?" his father said. "Number two?" Buzz Aldrin’s father was hard to please.
Too busy to read The Silmarillion? Here’s a 4-minute video to explain the mythology behind Tolkien’s works, The Hobbit and (especially) The Lord of the Rings.
Or you could just watch Stephen Colbert school James Franco on the Valar:
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