This time of year plenty of pastors (and I) get asked, “What do you think of Santa Claus?”
And when they ask this, they eye us warily. Some of them love all the Santa traditions this time of year, and the last thing they want to hear from us is they’re wrong. Others deeply disapprove of Santa stealing the focus from Jesus at Christmastime, and if we don’t share their concern, they’ll think we’ve compromised. Yes, folks, it’s a test of our orthodoxy: They’re not interested in what we believe, unless we already believe as they do.
My view is somewhere between the extremes, so nobody likes it. Oh well.
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