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Early Christians were persecuted for meeting to worship, so by shifting the observance of Christ's birthday to the end of December to coincide with the Roman Saturnalia festivals they could mask their reason for celebrating...
...series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct his tribute to the second coming of Christ. Hampton built this set-piece in a poorly lit, unheated garage in D.C. He took just about anything he found to design an almost symmetrical arrangement of over 180 pieces. In the center and in back is a larger throne (for God) flanked by two smaller chairs for the archangels. In front...
...Dozier [Dec. 20]. In one fell swoop, he raised divorced Catholics' morale sky high while simultaneously exposing some shadowy church law to the critical judgment of daylight. Dozier's decision to bestow general forgiveness of sins on some 12,000 Christians is big news today. In Christ's time it would have been a no-hum event. For Pete's sake, Christ came on earth to forgive...
There was, however, one undeniable advantage to Sunday openings this year: accommodating returns. In Atlanta and a number of other places, parking lots looked fuller on Sunday, Dec. 26, than they did before Christmas. Post-Christ-mas sales went well for many retailers, with shoppers lining up at 9 a.m. Sunday to take advantage of bargains...
...doubts that Christ preexisted in the Godhead before his human birth, and he believes the early church's definitions of the deity of Christ to be Hellenistic. To him the point is simply that God was present in Jesus, revealing himself and making known his claims on man and his offer of forgiveness. The test of being a Christian "is not assent to this or that dogma . . . but the acceptance of faith in Christ and imitation of Christ...