A few more Christmas-related blog entries, following up on my one-stop Christmas blogging link collection. It seemed better to have a follow-up entry than to extend that one indefinitely…
Christmas Wishes from around the Anglican Communion
Christmas in the Trenches by Jim Wallis
Bethlehem vs. Nazareth: The Claim To Fame Smackdown
Oh Blessed Be The Time and Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem by Metacatholic
Food For Thought: The Birth Of Jesus
Why The Need For A Vulnerable God?
Dating Christmas (and a Christmas Sermon on Dates)
More Shots Fired In War On Advent
Merry Christmas (or Chirstmas) from Metacrock. And from C. Orthodoxy. And from Ken Schenck. And Duane Smith
Three Christmas Stories For The Second Half Of Life
Hark The Herald Angels Sing – the full lyrics, with some more about Charles Wesley.
Christmas Presidential Politics
Barna Survey: Americans’ Views On The Virgin Birth
Win The War On Christmas By Losing
The Nativity Stories compared (HT Find And You Shall Seek)
Scrooge In Reverse, An Obama Christmas and Love Made Visible from Pastor Bob Cornwall
Bumpy Ride To Bethlehem, Christmas In The Public Space, Rethinking The Incarnation In Time For Christmas, and The Archbishop and Baby in the Manger at Find And You Shall Seek
Religion Reporters Do Love Their Christmas Legends and A Christmas Legend, Or A License To Lie? deal with media reports about things Rowan Williams supposedly said. See also the Cartoon Blog on this topic.
Jim West on Archaeological Evidence and the Birth of Jesus
Christmas and the First Church Growth Consultant
Give Them What They Really Want (for Christmas)
Scot McKnight has an ongoing series on Christmas Words
Philip Harland has a collection that ranges from extracanonical Gospels to Ella Fitzgerald
Confessions Of A Half-Hearted Christmas Radical
A X-mas Call For Scientists and Christian Leaders to Unite
A Muslim Recommends Putting “Christ” Back In Christmas
The True Origin of Santa Claus
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