A “culture-sensitive” Christmas (a spoof)

One dreary November evening a small group of parents gathered to discuss a new name for Christmas. They had good reason to: the school their children attended had always celebrated Christmas without problems, but the neighbourhood had been changing of late, filling up with members of several religions, none of whom observed Christmas as a [...]

Was Jesus really born of a virgin?

Why couldn’t a person believe Jesus was born of (or is it ‘from’) a virgin? Look up the word “God” in the Dictionary and one definition given is “having no limits or boundaries.” In other words, God can do what he jolly well pleases, so having Jesus born to (or from) a virgin was a [...]

Like a little child

Christmas is amazing. For some incredible reason it just keeps going. Even non-Christians don’t mind keeping an ancient Christian festival. For most people, Christmas has nothing to do with Christ or his birth, of course, it’s about the mythical Santa Claus bringing gifts to children on Christmas Eve. But isn’t that the secret behind the [...]