No.
194 December 2007
COLIN’S REFLECTIONS
http://www.
dunblanecathedral.
org.
ukADDRESS
Do Something Different
for Christmas
SHADRACH, MESHACH
and Abednego - the
spellchecker on my computer
is going haywire over
these names.
But you may
remember them from...
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No.
194 December 2007
COLIN’S REFLECTIONS
http://www.
dunblanecathedral.
org.
ukADDRESS
Do Something Different
for Christmas
SHADRACH, MESHACH
and Abednego - the
spellchecker on my computer
is going haywire over
these names.
But you may
remember them from Sunday
School days: the three brave
men who wouldn’t bow down
before Nebuchadnezzar’s
golden statue, and the king
gets cross with them and
tries to burn them in the fire,
but when they are thrown
in they don’t burn and
Nebuchadnezzar realises that
maybe there’s another kind
of God to reckon with and
different values to live by.
Conspiracy
A bit like December, I
think, and our approach to
Christmas.
Theproblemwith
getting ready for Christmas is
not that it involves spending
lots of money - there might
not be anything wrong with
that.
Buttheredoesseemtobe
a kind of cultural conspiracy
which says that we all have to
joinintheworshipofmaterial
goods and pretend to enjoy
it.
And we do it because the
kings in our society - big
busines
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