Entries from What's Wrong with the World tagged with 'Christmas'
Christmas: The day as an icon
As secularists and neo-Puritans alike delight in pointing out, there is no strong reason to believe that Jesus was born "in the cold midwinter." Those silly traditional Christians, celebrating a holy day that is nowhere commanded to be celebrated...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 24, 2017 1:46 PM
W4 reprise: Santa Claus
As Christmas is around the corner, several of my FB friends began sharing a link to this post (from last year) by William Lane Craig, in which he says many sensible things. Viz., On the one hand, the replacement of...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on November 29, 2016 10:29 AM
The Way of the Wandering Star.
[Editor's note: The following is a sermon preached by my maternal grandfather, Rev. Robert H. Stephens, on December 23rd, 1951. He spent a career as a beloved pastor at Presbyterian churches mostly in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He passed...
Posted by Paul J Cella on December 24, 2015 1:31 PM
Yes, Virginia, there is a real war on Christmas
When reading a much more interesting article at the Touchstone site, my eye fell upon this annoying little gem. (It's an unfortunate fact of blogging that more annoying posts often are better blog fodder than more interesting ones, because the...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 18, 2015 7:09 PM
Christmas: Something Real
One of the reasons that I oppose postmodernism so fiercely is that it teaches man to believe that there is no ultimate metaphysical reality on which to hang his hat. The buck never stops anywhere. There is no "closure."...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 24, 2013 1:51 PM
Call corporate
A few days before Christmas Day I was shopping at my local Rite Aid store in their Christmas aisle. There, hanging right about at eye level (I'm short) were Christmas undies, gift suggestions, both his and hers. The female pair...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 28, 2012 11:45 AM
Christmas 2012
Never far from view at Christmastime is the shadow of threat pressing hard upon innocence. A bloodthirsty tyrant hears news of a future king and out of his jealousy conceives a monstrous crime: the slaughter of all the infant...
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Posted by Paul J Cella on December 23, 2012 10:27 PM
Why Christmas?
An interesting question came up in discussion at our house a couple of months or so back. Why do we celebrate Christmas as the great time of remembering the doctrine of the Incarnation instead of the Annunciation? (A quick googling...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 26, 2011 8:21 PM
Christmas Contributor Omnibus
(For our Christmas post this year, several contributors have turned in Christmas meditations. Each will be labeled separately with the name of its actual author.) Paul Cella Among the chief features of Christmas is a grand paradox: one that...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 24, 2011 10:50 AM
The Best of W4: To Face Unafraid
This post was first published just over four years ago, and I thought it was worth bringing back. Some of you may not have been reading W4 in 2007. ************************************************************************************************************* I'm sure all of you are already sick of "Winter...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 19, 2011 8:39 AM
I got a bridge to sell ya'
...if you believe this outcome was decided by a fair and random lottery. Let's see: Twenty-one spots put up by the city of Santa Monica for "holiday" decorations. Thirteen people applied to decorate them. The rules say that one person...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 14, 2011 5:13 PM
Merry Christmas--quotation miscellany
We, the contributors of What's Wrong with the World, wish a joyous Feast of the Nativity to all our readers. Having decided that we could not better the words of the men of Christendom's past on this great festival,...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 24, 2009 9:46 AM
Bob Dylan Christmas album
Bob Dylan is releasing a Christmas album entitled Christmas in the Heart (Sean at RightWingBob has some brief but interesting comments on the title). All of the royalties, “in perpetuity,” from this disc will go to providing food for...
Posted by Paul J Cella on August 26, 2009 7:13 PM
Merry Christmas
Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that most of mankind must regard as remote from each other;...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 24, 2008 9:27 AM
Lunar Christmas.
From NASA: Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the Moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts; Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders did...
Posted by Paul J Cella on December 24, 2008 6:55 AM
Unto us a Child is born.
The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover...
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Posted by Paul J Cella on December 22, 2007 11:02 AM
The Tale of the Ten Cossacks and the Brave Little Waiter
For those of you who think we, or at least I, never have a good word to say about Muslims, herewith a getting-close-to-Christmas story. (HT TROP) Apparently a bunch of young men were aboard a New York subway and were...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 14, 2007 4:41 PM
To face unafraid the plans that we made
I'm sure all of you are already sick of "Winter Wonderland." Oddly, I'm not. At least not if I can listen to Bing Crosby sing it instead of somebody less talented. I notice this year, as every year now, one...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on December 5, 2007 8:24 PM
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