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During the festive holiday season, it’s become common to criticize the commercialization of Christmas. Cynics suggest that there’s something unseemly and shallow about so many Americans running around frantically and spending huge sums to purchase gifts that the recipients may not even welcome. From a deeper perspective, however, the surge of commercial activity in the Christmas season strengthens the connections of inter-dependence and mutual reward that make community possible. The seasonal spending not only connects those who give and receive gifts to one another, but ties together buyers and sellers in webs of service, prosperity and gain. If retailers enjoy good...
"Commercialization" Of Christmas Actually Shows Community and Giving
It matters not what Tom Jefferson said about Him; it is intellectually dishonest to say that a man who would deceive people about his identity can still be a moral, much less a great, teacher. And Jesus said it often enough that He was the fulfillment of the Scriptures, the Son of God, the Way, the Truth and the Life. He left us no other choice but to take Him at His word or call him a liar. The only reason people don't believe, once having heard, is...