And Other Reflections On Christmas
Teachers and preachers, take heart! Not everything you say
goes in one ear and out the other.
I've never forgotten a point that was made in a sermon that
was given over 25 years ago. Bob Veon was pastor at a church in
the little college town where I did my undergraduate studies. He
was talking about the joyless attitude of a lot of Christians. He
said he had recently read the musings of a cynic who wrote what
was probably the most accurate assessment of the churchgoing
masses: "It's noon on Sunday, and the churches of America are