Over the years, I’ve written widely about Christmas – from the perils of engaging in the Santa myth with a child who could see spirits, to re-reading the Christmas narratives from their own cultural context. A couple years ago, I released a little ebook version of a Christmas devotional.
Well, I’ve added a couple of new chapters to it, including the Women of Christmas. This chapter came about from research I did for a discussion on the Seers See Ministries group on the private social media site MeWe.
I’m happy to offer this revision as free ebook for you. If you’d like to download devotional as a PDF, click here. Please let me know what you think about it.
Seers and Santa
Here are several articles I’ve written which dealt with raising our seer daughter with the Santa Claus myth. My wife and I aren’t sure we did the right thing. Why? Because when you have a daughter who sees supernatural beings all the time, and then you pretend about Santa… well…
Anyway, here are the posts in chronological order:
1. Seer Children and Santa
2. Seer Children and Santa part 2. After the first post, I was attacked viciously on social media, and so part 2 involves some response to that. This post reports on when we revealed the “truth” about Santa to our seer daughter. (ughhh).
3. Seers and Santa – a year later, a quick summary of our seer daughter’s thoughts on what happened.
4. Seer Children, Father Christmas, Santa, and the Three Kings – more summaries and further explanations of the role myths have in society. (I was attacked a lot on social media over this issue… but most who attacked us believe that seers are all demonized or delusional, so I don’t know why I felt the need to explain things better to them).
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer: God’s Heartthrob for Seers
Check out this inspirational post for the seer who feels like an outcast.
The Movie Elf
One of my favorite posts about one of my favorite movies, again trying to explain how to think about myths and fairy tales in society:
Elf as Fairy Story and Myth reveals a lot about the Gospel.
The Seers of Christmas
Regarding the Seers in the Christmas story (expanded in the devotional) check out the posts on this page. The posts explain why Jesus wasn’t born in a barn, the most likely origin of the magi (and why just 3 of them didn’t show up the night of Jesus’ birth), and more.
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