Jesus and the promise of Christmas

“When the Christian holiday dominates the culture, sometimes oppressively, a newspaper column may not seem the most appropriate venue for personal reflections on the meaning of Jesus. Yet even as Western civilization has been nourished by religious and philosophical traditions that have nothing to do with Jesus, it has also been profoundly influenced by the memory [...]

Advent and Christmas

Have a closer look to what christmas means. It’s not the Coca-Cola-Santa-Claus, whom we owe christmas. It was more something like a small child, that came from outside our imagination into this world with all its disharmony and questions. > more.
picture: joshunter,flickr.com

Wonderful Christmas Time – the best songs ever

No time today for reading ? Here a few christmas-videos to take away your stress. Look, relax and realize, how the different artists interpret christmas.

Searching for the Star of Bethlehem

“A new theory makes the news. But are 21st-century astronomers looking in the wrong place? - Using powerful computer software, an Australian astronomer says that he has re-created the night sky over Bethlehem in the year 2 B.C. and discovered a planetary conjunction that may have been the Star of Bethlehem that drew the Magi to worship the [...]

24 hours around the world – good pictures

You may ask your neighbour what happened today ? Well, he won’t be able to tell you. Not exactly at least. So if you are not surprised about that, you might recognize, that pictures sometimes say more than a thousand words. Lets have a try – watch > here.
picture: dia,flickr.com

Transparent Christmas Story

“As the sun gleaned off the hood of his metallic blue 2004 Toyota 4 Runner, Conner Bentley still wasn’t sure why he agreed to come back to White House, Tennessee, (his home town) for the Christmas Concert.
The request to do the show was delivered in such a strange way, and his band ‘CB Radio’ hadn’t [...]

Who still believes in Santa Claus ??

Are you still searching for good e-cards for Christmas and Santa Claus ? With…
 Wise Words for a Wild World ?
 Wild Words for a Wise World ?
 Wide Words for a Wild World ?
Send a few of these cards to those, whom you want to becoma a friend, an enemy, or both of them. With kind regards [...]

1.st advent….

We wish all readers of this website a peaceful and glad time from the 1. Advent until christmas (and beyond) !
Watch video > Christina Aguilera – Christmas Time 
> Do they know it’s christmas 
> Wonderful ChristmasTime – Paul McCartney 
Advent (from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming”) is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus, [...]