My First Entirely Secular Holiday Celebration

For a ton of reasons, this year I determined not to try to keep Christ in Christmas.

Among the many reasons are the creeping high church-ism in my own tradition and the realization that, apart from high church circles, Christmas is nothing--that there is no New Testament evidence that early disciples celebrated the nativity.

So this year I just dove head first into the secular and to a lesser degree, the Madison Ave holiday.

And, I have to tell you, it was a blast. I've had more fun this year than ever.

I will celebrate the incarnation with every breath I breathe. But, I can't see me ever doing CHRIST-MASS ever again.