Just received my copy of the Nov/Dec Relevant Magazine in the mail. Let me share with you one of my favourite quotes from an article in it, “Stealing Christmas.”
We call it Christmas and have named it after our Savior, but let’s not be so arrogant as to suggest the holiday is exlusively ours. … Christmas is the story of the incarnation–of the insertion of Christ into the dust of humanity, of the infusion of grace into something worldly and pagan. In the process mankind was redeemed. If so, then our theft of these solstice traditions is no crime against history. Instead, it’s yet another picture–a beautiful, generous, peaceful, evergreen metaphor–of redemption.
Jason Boyett
Now go read the whole article: Relevant’s Digital Issue (pg 83)
