Archive for December, 2009

the history of “Jul”
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The celebration of God becoming human is celebrated in what the English world calls Christmas. Here in Scandinavia we don’t call it Christmas, we call it “Jul”. Jul has originally nothing to do with Christ.
Yule or Yule-tide is a winter festival that was initially celebrated by the historical Germanic peoples as [...]

John Howard Yoder has played an important part in influencing my thinking in various ways. Here he has interesting things to say about Democracy.
Yoder is best remembered for his reflections on Christian ethics. Rejecting the assumption that human history is driven by coercive power, Yoder argued that it was rather God — working in, with, [...]