The Wall family Christmas of 1904 has been preserved on the equivalent of an early dictaphone. The link gives more details, including samplings. (Be sure to play the one of the 7-year-old singing, with his big finale.) Curators at the Museum of London have discovered
The real Santa Claus, thought to have been a participant at the Council of Nicaea and to have slugged Arius for his heretical Christology: HT: Mary Moerbe
Go to Lutheran Public Radio for round-the-clock Christmas music, starting today. Here is the ad that shows what they are trying to do:
In his continuing series that we’ve been blogging about exploding the myth that Christmas was based on a pagan holiday, Rev. Joseph Abrahamson takes on the view recently pushed on the History Channel that Christmas, along with customs like singing carols, doing things for children,
Not with a bang, but a whimper. (To adapt T. S. Eliot’s lines from “The Hollow Men.”) Today we see if the Mayans were right. I worry that the world will end and that I’ll miss it. So if you see any signs of a
In another in his series on the historical roots of Christmas (see our post on why he says it takes place on December 25), Pastor Joseph Abrahamson explodes the scholarly myth that Christmas was a Christian attempt to co-opt the pagan feast of the sun
Christians typically every year take up the cause of keeping Christ in Christmas. The American Atheists organization has taking up the cause of keeping Santa in Christmas and dropping Jesus. Here is a sign they put up in Times Square: Steadfast Lutherans » Keep the
In the fiscal cliff negotiations, President Obama wants to renew the Bush tax cuts for everyone except those who make $250,000. House Speaker Boehner, in what he is calling his “plan B,” is saying that Republicans would be willing to let taxes go up for
Pastor Joseph Abrahamson has started a fascinating series on why the church celebrates Christmas on December 25 and when this started. He includes a number of links and references, and he critiques the notion that Christians co-opted a pagan holiday. I was fascinated by the
Another level of New Age syncretism: Going to a Star Wars filming location to await the Mayan apocalypse (scheduled for tomorrow) because “the force is strong here.” At the center of the rebel base where Luke Skywalker took off to destroy the Death Star and
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