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Hospitality and God at Christmas
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Hospitality and God at Christmas

We find recipes, work out quantities and make shopping lists; then we carefully combine ingredients. We take time to set up the place for hospitality, with places for people to…

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Perspectives on Christmas
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Perspectives on Christmas

A Muslim’s Perspective What do Muslims think of Christmas? What do they believe about it? How do they respond to it? Perhaps they focus on the differences between the Qur’anic…

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The Familiarity of Christmas?
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The Familiarity of Christmas?

The build-up to Christmas was there on public display inside and outside shopping centres and in individual shops. Lights and decorations. Santas, snowmen, Christmas trees, tinsel. Christmas carols—both traditional religious…

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When the Lights go Down in the City: A Reflection on the Season’s Passing
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When the Lights go Down in the City: A Reflection on the Season’s Passing

It was an abiding sense of desperation, frustration and repression which led Lebanese journalist and professor of history Samir Kassir to speak in 2004 of the “Arab malaise.” For as…

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