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Our family participated in a story done by The Tennessean newspaper about simplifying Christmas yet trying to make it more meaningful each year.
December 25, 2004 issue of The Tennessean: Trimming Christmas
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Greg R Taylor
I am a home builder in Northeastern Oklahoma and president of 1256Movement.org. Proceeds from my latest book published in 2023, Prodigals, benefit this nonprofit dedicated to reparations of racial trauma in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taylor is author of several books, including a coauthored work with Randy Harris titled Living Jesus. He and his wife, Jill, have three adult children, Ashley, Anna, and Jacob, for whom Prodigals is dedicated. I’ve been a writer for 30 years, a professional writer and editor for most of those years. No matter what other jobs I’ve done, I’ve continued to write. I’m the author, co-author, editor, or ghostwriter of many books you can see here. You’ll find a lot of topics I’ve written about listed and I've tried to categorize them so there should be bread crumbs for you to follow your interests. I’m 2024, I’ll celebrate 20 years of blogging. You can also find lots of free articles I’ve published in various magazines if you search my name at Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Wineskins. I wrote many book reviews for Publishers Weekly some years back but most of the reviews are not named reviews for sake of objectivity.
Greg, the article was wonderful. I have to confess that the Brenton household overdoes Christmas in the extreme. Angi just loves Christmas. My son’s new gifts (his birthday is Dec. 18th) are stacked in the hallway outside of his room because there’s no more room inside. That can’t be good. Tomorrow I’ll go in with a Goodwill box and we’ll start sorting. And I will share a copy of The Tennessean article with his mom!
A local congregation that is a Church-of-Christ offshoot, Little Rock Church, has celebrated Advent with the candle-lighting ceremony for years. (*SIGH* I still remember how wonderful the little stone chapel on Indianapolis’ Monument Circle used to look and smell on Christmas Eve with pine boughs and red ribbons and candles in each window!)
I’m afraid the best we can do at my home church is a rerun of the “Why It’s Okay To Talk About Jesus At Christmas” sermon.
Bless you and yours in the remainder of the holiday season and the year to come. Thanks for continuing to give me a lot to think and pray about!
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