By Mark Leiren-Young I was a teenaged reindeer . . . I always wanted to be Santa Claus. When it’s Christmas and you’re in the dressing-up in costumes business, who doesn’t want to be the big guy? But as a gangly teenager — six foot two and maybe 170 pounds, even covered in costume fur […]
A Port Alberni Nativity
By Kevin Annett The last Christmas we were all together hangs over memory like the fog that year in the Alberni Valley. It was a time of gathering, two years and more of labour summoning so many together where once there were but a few. And it was a time of ending. The church stewards […]
War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.
By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless War […]
Hang the holidays
By Bev Schellenberg What has happened to our celebratory schedule? It seems it was only a few weeks ago that I bought a witch hat and cape for my daughter, a baron costume for my son, and carved a pumpkin. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago. Now here I am surrounded by […]
‘Tis the season to be jealous
Bev Schellenberg Peace and joy get a lot of airtime during the holiday season, but there’s another seasonal emotion that is sadly left out in the cold: jealousy. That’s right. And it fits right into the Christmas story. Think about it: how do you think Joseph felt when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant, […]
