The stockings are hung by the chimney with care at the ancestral Mead mansion; and as I settle down for a long winter’s rest, I am taking a break from politics and war, sort of, to yet another run of our good old-fashioned Yuletide blog.
In particular, I want to blog about Christmas itself and what it means. Somehow my generation decided to leave this part out when we passed down the traditions and the lore we were taught to the next generation: We’ve bought a lot of Christmas presents, but we were too busy to think much about the meaning of the story or to teach the next generation much about this holiday and the religion that it defines. We, and the generations who follow us, did a great job teaching about Santa Claus and presents; about nine in ten millennials celebrate Christmas. But, according to this 2019 Gallup poll, only about one-third of them think of it as, primarily, a religious festival.
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