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The Empire Chronicles (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
This year’s Christmas cards from the Conservative Party do not bear the word “Christmas” on them, instead they have the message “Season’s Greetings”. The Christmas cards, which are available on the party’s website, avoid all religious imagery – preferring generic winter scenes and pictures of robins to pictures of Jesus and the Three Kings, and the word...
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently, you won't be able to see the hilarious It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Christmas episode on FX this year. It's a little too risque, even by FX's lax standards. But A Very Sunny Christmas has been released as a standalone DVD, which you can pick up right now. I don't want to say that the Christmas special is that much more offensive that the TV show—it isn't, by much, really. There's...
Mary's Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today I made my Christmas Puddings, as a family we have always had home made puddings, my mother in law used to make them and they were so much moister than any bought in the shops. So when we started doing our own Christmases I took over the making of them. When the family was all here everyone had to have a stir and a Christmas wish, I still have a Christmas wish but now it is more in line with a...
A United Methodist Emerging... (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
I am currently reading a very interesting and helpful book Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear by Scott Bader-Saye. Early in the book, he discusses how our current social climate, spurred on by marketing and media creates a culture of fear. He talks about the fear that some churches create, encouraging the members to be fearful of the world, opting only to engage with Christian believers, Bader-Saye...
Breath of the Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Note: This will be the third time I have edited and posted this little essay. I feel the need to change it a little every year but this one is changed a bit more than usual. I am posting it before Thanksgiving this year and you'll have to read it to find out why: A Jew for "Merry Christmas" I am a Jew and I have to tell you, no one is going to discourage me from celebrating Thanksgiving and...
incarnatus est (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I just cannot get into the Christmas wars. The Mississippi-based American Family Assn. is organizing a boycott against Gap Inc. calling for a "two-month boycott over the company's failure to use the word 'Christmas' in its advertising to Christmas shoppers."I say kudos to Gap. Who wants someone huge corporation to use Jesus to sell jeans? Don't we have enough silly Christians hawking merchandise...
The enemies of reason (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Poor old David Cameron. Well I say 'poor old David Cameron' but he's neither poor nor old, and I don't really have a great deal of sympathy for him, given what he's probably about to do to the country I live in and the people who live here. On the other hand, while I can't agree with a lot of his policies, I do think he is trying to make the Conservative party a bit more socially liberal (in public...
Dave Strickson (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
'Season's Greetings' from David Cameron as Tories Christmas cards 'pander to politically correct brigade' Two years ago he derided politically-correct Christmas cards which do not mention the word Christmas as 'insulting tosh'. But last night David Cameron was facing a backlash from his own party after it emerged the Conservative official cards have the message 'Season's Greetings'. The Christmas cards,...
McIlWeb (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
1 - Jesus 2 - Robyn 3 - Our kids 4 - Extended family 5 - Turkey, dressing, potatoes, & gravy dinner (& pumpkin pie for dessert) 6 - Wife will finally allow me to listen to Christmas music 7 - Football 8 - Macy's parade 9 - The whole Pilgrims & Indians thing 10 - Post-dinner nap
In The Faith (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Moldova (MNN) -- Lars Dunberg with Global Action says 80 percent of adults in Moldova are unemployed, and workers are often paid in liquor. "You can walk into one of the villages when people have been paid and, even in the morning, everyone is drunk including the children; it's just a horrible situation. People will starve to death this winter." Global Action's feeding program provides food...
Madville Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
What would Jesus do on Black Friday? I doubt he'd be clipping coupons . It's consumer frenzy time again. Gorge yourself at the table Thursday, gorge your shopping cart at the mall Friday. I feel ill already. KELO runs the usual "buy buy buy!" propaganda under the guise of sage advice for shoppers. "Especially with the economy absolutely, you have to get out there and get the most for...
mAss Backwards (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the network that brought you the forged TANG memos. Katie Couric Uses Christmas Poem To Campaign For ObamaCare UPDATE: From the comments @ newsbusters... Twas the month before November 23, 2009 - 22:18 ET by Slyrr Twas the month before christmas, and all through the land, the people were shouting to stop the government's plan Yes they planned to seize health care, and they did it with glee, with...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Legend has it that a young Jewish girl began to cry when she had no gift to offer Jesus upon His birth. As her tears fell to the earth, tiny flowers sprouted and were called Christmas roses, also known as hellebores. Much beloved among gardeners, hellebores are also highly toxic. Some historians, in fact, trace the beginning of chemical warfare to the deadly use of this flower in poisoning ancient...
The Inn at the End of the World (Free subscription) | yesterday
I missed mentioning that yesterday was stir-up Sunday. Next Sunday is the first of Advent and Christmas is only a month away. Time to start on the Christmas pudding. STIR UP, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
For Today... November 23, 2009 Outside my window... it's sunny, bright, and in the 50's today...not windy at all, which is unusual here. I am thinking...of the week ahead and all that I have to do, but with God's grace it will get done and focus on the things that are most vital. I am thankful for...my ever deepening relationship with Jesus Christ as He carries me and my family through these challenging...
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