Hey, everybody! It’s the last day of Kistchmas, so let’s play Holiday Mashup! Here’s how it works: You take the Nativity story and something else that’s nothing at all like the Nativity story, and you put them together and see what you get! Ready? Go! The prophets fortell the chosen one Who makes my [...]
This is a choral arrangement I did for our church a while back. We performed it again this year in our Christmas program, and Jenna recorded this video. Like most live recordings it has a bit of background noise, but I suppose of all the pieces I’ve written, this one goes best with various interjections from [...]
First published Christmas 2009; newly updated for Quivering Daughters. I think I finally figured out what Christmas trees are really about. A while ago I found a blog article on the subject of our friend Mr. Tannenbaum. Apparently (the author observed) some folks believe that Christmas trees are pagan symbols that the church has adopted [...]
For many of us book lovers, Christmas is a time when we can kick back and enjoy some classic little pieces of literature– A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, A Visit from St. Nicholas, and of course the Nativity stories themselves in Matthew and Luke. When I have time again for leisure reading, [...]
* * * * * * * * “Yes,” my visitor told me, glowering over the steam of his warm Christmas toddy. “The whole thing was the fault of the reindeer.” “Reindeer?” I said. “You know: Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. But it’s amazing how many people don’t [...]
I told you guys to stop me. You can’t say you weren’t warned this would happen. Ohhhh, man. Emboldened by the Crescat’s contest and your delighted reaction to my previous hilarious [intlink id="687" type="post"]tacky[/intlink] nativity [intlink id="702" type="post"]scenes[/intlink], I pushed past my initial fear and kept searching through the dark and terrible world beyond the Kitsch. [...]
On the second day of Kitschmas, I gave to the Crescat’s contest: Does it get any tackier than an inflatable Nativity Scene? Yes sir. Yes sir, it does…. Disproving the rule that everything is cooler with robots. That’s one weird-looking donkey, or is it the Easter Bunny? Baby Jesus and Baby Mary. [...]
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