“The Stakes in the War on Christmas”

“The Stakes in the War on Christmas” December 22, 2015

 

St.Francis makes first nativity scene
At Greccio, Italy, in 1223, St. Francis of Assisi starts the tradition of creating Christmas nativity scenes
Giotto (d. 1337)
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Bruce Thornton, a scholar of classics and comparative literature associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford, offers a thoughtful opinion piece on the annual struggles between secularism, on the one hand, and, on the other, public celebrations of (or even references to) the religious meaning of Christmas:

 

http://www.hoover.org/research/stakes-war-christmas

 

Posted from Richmond, Virginia

 


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