Headline Roundup • December 25th, 2021
Perspectives: Christmas 2021
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On America's second Christmas marked by COVID-19, voices on all sides of politics offered perspectives on the holiday, its meaning, celebrations and public health.
Many viewpoints across the spectrum celebrated Christmas while connecting it to COVID-19. Left-rated voices often focused on overcoming pandemic-induced grief and sadness, protecting the safety of loved ones and conquering social justice issues. Many on the right reflected on Christianity and faith; some condemned fear-mongering and efforts to discourage celebrations, and expressed pity for those who've purportedly let fear of COVID-19 control their lives.
Merry Christmas from the AllSides team!
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Merry Christmas! Dear readers, I hope you are celebrating the incarnation of our God in style, with joy and laughter and good food and good cheer, surrounded by people you love. I awoke this morning in my childhood bed, in my parents’ home, and will gather around the tree with my siblings and nieces. For us it is a day of feasting and fun and a Christmas much like any other. Vigil has been kept, Advent observed, and now it is time to celebrate the Christ child.
In the bleak...
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Amid ever-rising coronavirus cases, and a bitter and corrosive political climate, what better time for the inspiring Christmas message of the Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church? “The story of a baby born is the story of beauty, a story of hope,” he wrote, “whereas the Jewish tradition says every child who is born is a reminder that God is not finished with the world yet.”
Noting the accounts of tyranny and hatred arising from King Herod’s fear of a coming rival to his throne, Curry found an expression...
Reuters
Some people have finished their Christmas shopping early, worried that the special gift they’d been eyeing might be in short supply. Yet others are rediscovering another type of gift that is never held up on an unloaded cargo ship or stuck in a clogged supply chain.
It is an act of kindness. Reminders of this deeper spirit of Christmas are not hard to find.
Most of them are quite public. Nova Scotia, for example, has sent a giant Christmas tree to Boston each year in gratitude for that city’s act...
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