Tag Archives: Christmas

Love Lessons from “Love Actually”

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Brenton Dickieson

I did not grow up with the spiritual significance of Christmas in my home, so Christmas was about three things: food, toys, and Christmas movies. I am still a little traumatized by a stop-action drummer boy in my childhood memory, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged Christmas, Cloin Firth, Emma Thompson, film, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightly, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, love, Love Actually, Martin Freeman, Rowan Atkinson | 5 Comments

The Inside is Bigger than the Outside: A Christmas Thought from Narnia for Our World Too

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

“Always winter and never Christmas.” This is the condition where we first discover Narnia in The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. It is not so much blanketed in white as smothered in it, frozen by it. Anyone in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Aslan, Bible, books, chocolate peanut butter balls, Christmas, God in Flesh, lion the witch and the wardrobe, literature, myth, Narnia, The Last Battle | 16 Comments

My Santa Manifesto (Santa: Don’t Read This!)

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

This article appeared first in the Nov/Dec 2011 edition of Island Family Magazine. Few figures stir up as much controversy in certain circles as Santa Claus. You may find it hard to imagine why this jolly old elf inspires any … Continue reading →