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Fourth Sunday
Feeling in a festive mood and too laid back to write some new reflections. For the fourth Sunday of Advent I am reposting this piece from December 2021. I was struck by this photo when I saw it online. It is a reminder at this time of year there is more to Christmas than a cultural […]
Flashback Claus
Continuing with our Friday theme of looking back at previous posts, here’s one from November 22, 2014 – which has its roots more than 20 years before that. In shopping malls across North American the excitement has almost peaked: Santa Claus is coming! Indeed, many communities celebrate with a Santa Claus parade, held now about […]
Reason For The Season
I was struck by this photo when I saw it online. It is a reminder at this time of year there is more to Christmas than a cultural festival featuring an old man in a red suit. The cross isn’t usually seen as a Christmas symbol. Yet it is the ultimate Christmas symbol. The birth of the […]
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
In shopping malls across North American the excitement has almost peaked: Santa Claus is coming! Indeed, many communities celebrate with a Santa Claus parade, held now about three weeks earlier than when I was a child. With no young children in the household I think I will find something else to do that doesn’t involve […]
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