James A. Hopwood

Keeping Christmas (eBook, ePUB)

Finding Joy in a Season of Excess and Strife

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year--or at least we want it to be. Too often our celebration of Jesus' birthday is overwhelmed by bright lights and tinsel, overspending and overeating, plus constant chatter about a "war on Christmas." Can't we do better than this? There are two Christmases. One is sacred. One is secular. The two have clashed in one "culture war" or another for 1,700 years. Christmas is not (as some falsely claim) a pagan holiday, but pagan-influenced traditions are part of the seasonal clutter. Keeping Christmas is about helping you find joy in a season of excess and strife. Part survival guide, part history, part cultural commentary, and all laced with spiritual reflection, this book is about how you can celebrate in ways that are most meaningful to you and your family. It's not easy to thread your way through the Christmas maze. But if Ebenezer Scrooge could learn to keep Christmas well, so can you. Maybe it's time to reinvent Christmas. Maybe we can get it right this time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781532695391
• Artikelnr.: 58114392

Autorenporträt

James A. Hopwood is a retired United Methodist pastor who served Kansas churches in small towns and suburbs near Kansas City. He is the author of Keeping Christmas. He and his wife, Linda, who is a retired United Methodist licensed local pastor, have two grown daughters and two grandsons.