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What does Christmas mean to me?
First, a disclaimer; while I don’t claim to represent the Church or the official standpoint of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (what I usually incorrectly call “LDS Church”), I consider myself a faithful Latter-day Saint, and I am a member in good standing–still my blog posts are my sole responsibility, and nobody else is to be blamed for my mistakes. For the official Church material, only http://lds.org and http://mormon.org are the places to go. And especially Wikipedia, despite not representing the viewpoint of the LDS Church, however provides lots of useful (and less-useful) information. This is the information revolution!
Well, yours truly has been extremely busy lately due to certain things I’m not going to enumerate. Let’s just say, that Read more…
From the Manger to the Cross; the Adult Jesus and Sacrament
(Don’t miss my last year’s prequel titled Praise to the Man.)
I come back to this subject again. Most of the Christian world celebrates Christmas, and at the center is supposedly the Baby Jesus (made of cheapest possible plastic in China or Bangladesh or wherever kids will do it for a nickel a day). Let me stress this differently: the Baby Jesus. As far as the majority interest goes, he’s left in the Manger with the cattle lowing, and the miraculous baby not crying. Read more…
Have A Narnia Christmas
I am somewhat deliberately being “funny” with this post. For quick background, I have to confess that my childhood experiences made me a Grinch. Christmas was an ordeal for most part, when I was a kid – and it didn’t have any religious significance to my family, although Christmas day was the only time my mother went to church as long as I remeber (that happened once). But when I was 19, I experienced a profound change in my relationship with religion. I got a testimony or a spiritual witness of the divinity of Jesus, and an understanding of his mission on earth. That gave to me a new idea about Christmas. Read more…
Praise to The Man
So Christmas is on its merry way and media reports are all full of worried merchants agonizing about people not spending enough money. I realize that selling (mostly unneeded) junk is how many people earn their living (starting with the kids who work 12-hour shifts 7 days a week, while still starving, in Asian factories) – but let’s look at why Christmas is celebrated by Christians in the first place. Read more…
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