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Letters from 15 to 21 December 2008

Like all letters to the editor everywhere, these letters are the opinions of the writers and not Anglicans Online. We publish letters that we think will be of interest to our readers, whether we agree with them or not. If you'd like to write a letter of your own, click here.

A Westminster winter wonderland?

Last week's essay was wonderful, but truth does outrun speculation. When you pondered whether 'Frosty the Snowman' might make it into some denominations hymnody, you probably weren't aware of this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/3740949/Anglicans-give-Christmas-a-multicultural-makeover.html

It's sad, but it appears that Linus, of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' has a better understanding of the meaning of Christmas than the staff at an Anglican cathedral.

Ted Gale
Calvary Episcopal Church
Seminole, Florida, USA
15 December 2008

The quiet and the commotion

If we think of the birth of the Christ Child as the intersection of the Divine with our broken and wonderful world, perhaps it's no so odd that Christmas arrives in the midst of that which can seem so selfish and cold.

I am so grateful that it does come to us here, where and when we need the light of Christ so dearly. Perhaps by contrast the secular commotion helps accentuate that moment of quiet glory wherein all our hopes of real peace and eternal love lie.

Lori
Christ the King
Indiana, USA
16 December 2008

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