Ramblings and Rediscovering Christmas
Regular readers of this blog may notice I haven't posted in a month, which is unusual for me. I'm on sabbatical, so my posting schedule will be pretty irregular for the next few months. One of the reasons I timed my sabbatical the way I did--starting in late October and going through early April--was because one the areas I feel the most need to reinvent is the way I approach holidays, specifically Christmas. I've been in ministry for 9 years now, and I'm finding little new to share in my approach to the message of Jesus' birth. One of my main December goals is to go to other UU churches and see how they handle December. My approach has been to have an every-other-year system where one year I'm doing a world-religions focus for December and the next I'm focusing in on the Christmas story specifically. At this point in my ministry I've done Christmas sermons on the holiday blues, simplifying the holidays, Dickens, the historical Jesus, peace, hope,