The most sobering statement I’ve heard in a long
time:
“It is obscene to complain about a ‘war on Christmas’
in the United States when there are Syrian cities without Christians to
commemorate their holy days at all for the first time in some 1,900 years. That’s
an authentic war on Christmas.”
(“On the Edge of Extinction,” Christianity Today, November 2014)
What if every time we hear the words “Happy Holidays”
this season, instead of getting our Christian noses out of joint, we use it as
a reminder to pray for our Syrian and Iraqi brothers and sisters who are
huddled in refugee camps this Christmas?
