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Christmas Series Part 4: 100 Christmases
I love Christmas. It is special and joyous and nostalgic, often bitter sweet but always hopeful. This year will be my grandmother’s 100th Christmas. I just can’t start to explain what that means. Let’s give Nat King Cole a little … Continue reading
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Christmas Series Part 3: The Songs
In Part 1 of my Christmas Series 2017 I wrote about the Islamic Jesus, and in Part 2 about Hanukkah and my healthy childhood for the Jewish holidays. But one thing I definitely preferred about Christmas over Hanukkah was the … Continue reading
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Christmas Series Part 2: Hanukkah
Part 1 of my Christmas Series 2017 was about how Jesus is also the Messiah in Islam. Part 2 is about Hanukkah. My wife is Moroccan and from a Muslim family. I am from the U.S. and not from a … Continue reading
Christmas Series #1 : The Muslim Jesus
I just really enjoy Christmas, first as a child and now even more that I have children. I hope that over the next few days I’ll have time to write a series of posts about my Christmas 2017. To start … Continue reading
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Christmas Time is Here
If you could own only three Christmas albums: A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi Christmas with the Rat Pack by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. The Christmas Album by Nat King Cole and maybe an honorable … Continue reading
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No Swiss Minarets this Christmas
In general, I think that Juan Cole’s article today on the new Swiss law banning the building of minarets is oversimplified, but I do think he makes a few good points always overlooked in our they’re evil we’re good discourse: … Continue reading
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Same Sex Marriage and Christmas Music
Today I was listening to Talk of the Nation and the discussion was about the Bible and Gay Marriage. One of the guests, Lisa Miller (religion editor at Newsweek), made the interesting argument that contemporary Christianity has already turned its … Continue reading
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Christmas with the Rat Pack
So I have decided that it’s time to start annoying my neighbors like I do every year in December. This time, though, I am starting off in style with the fantastic Christmas with the Rat Pack. If you’re a fan … Continue reading
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Christmas in Madrid
Yesterday afternoon, we took a long walk through Madrid to look at the Christmas decorations. The Plaza Mayor’s Christmas market was full of the traditional Nativity Scene (called a Belén meaning Bethlehem) figurines, but there were also many other non-Christmas … Continue reading
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Christmas Lights in Paris
I suppose it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I made this silly little video of the Christmas lights on the Champs-Élysées on Saturday night. I guess I did it as an excuse to play this Frank Sinatra rendition … Continue reading
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