According to Business Insider, Christmas is the biggest commercial holiday celebrated in the U.S. In 2011, consumers spent just over $700 in gifts alone. $400 of that was spent on gifts for children. We spent another $2.6 billion in paper to wrap all that crap up. Paper that would be promptly torn, crumpled, shoved into […]
Read More A Guide to Sustainable Christmas Celebration: Part 2 Experience not ExcessOne of my favorite Christmas carols of all time is “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” It’s beautiful, almost haunting at times as the song weaves the cosmic weight of the holiday with the traditional occurrences of celebration. “Then pealed the bells more loud and deep God is not dead nor doth He sleep […]
Read More I Heard the Bells (an introduction to why I want you to join me in re-thinking the way we celebrate Christmas)“Christmas message number one from Mary, the Mother of God: ‘God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly.’” – Miroslav Volf to you and yours as God wraps Godself in flesh as light pierces this great darkness as we are finally at so very long last welcomed home […]
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