A story in the Daily Mail (UK) about a Bishop in the Church of England happened to catch my eye.
A leading Church of England bishop has launched an outspoken attack on "thoughtless bureaucracy and political correctness" for helping to "write Christ out of Christmas"..The Rt Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, accuses a small but powerful group of officials of marginalising religious celebrations out of an oversensitivity to multiculturalism.
Bravo! While he speaks of Britain, his point certainly applies here in the US as well. We all know that, in the span of just a few years, we have gone from the "Christmas Season" to the "Holiday Season."
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The article also included this little tidbit about Rev. Nazir-ali:
Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Bishop Nazir-Ali, who was born to Christian parents in Pakistan but comes from a Muslim family background, also appears to call for Christians to maintain their traditions to combat the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism."Britain is again faced with the challenge of a totalitarian ideology that…claims to be rooted in a religious tradition," he writes."If Britain is to defend its values successfully, it must rediscover the Christian faith in which these values are ultimately rooted."
Now this is a religious leader that "gets it." This is good news indeed– Perhaps the Church of England still has some spark of life and self-preservation left within… And the Brits too.