Scott Bates points out the multicultural aspects of the Nativity in “Christmas at the Courthouse.”
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The Real Story of Christmas
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The Tradition of the Yule-Log
Christmas symbolism, including the yule-log, comes from many different faith traditions. This helps explain its power.
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Nativity
This playful Scott Bates environmental poem looks at the nativity story and observes that we are in desperate need of a repetition.
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Worshipping the Gods of Fermented Fruit
The way Peruvian farmers use corn be gives insight into Teiresias’ encomium on wine in Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”
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