Christmas astounds me. More accurately I am amazed at the ways in which it is perverted and marketed. What Christmas joy I might actually have left is being killed off daily by the ubiquity of Christmas music, consumerism, and just bad theology. One solace has been the Advent Liturgy and its focus on anticipation and waiting rather than our cultural illness of immediate gratification. That aside I am constantly incensed as both an artist and theologian at the horrific nativities that clog our lawns, tables and store shelves. Plastic and mass produced Jesus, Mary and Joseph's replete with an eerie glow from the light-bulb up their rear. What are we saying about the holy family by imaging them in a hollow, mold-injected plastic with an artificial light? It is these types things that suggest to me that the iconoclasts had it right.
Here is a link to a host of Christmas kitsch to simultaneously brighten and steal your Christmas joy.
http://www.goingjesus.com/cavalcade1.shtml
I can't decide which is my favorite...B'gok!
Be sure to look at all 3 pages and the 2007 additions!
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- rstander
- Grand Forks, ND, United States
- i am recent MFA grad from University of North Dakota. while i have range of interests, my ongoing research continues to explore the nature of place/space through artistic and liturgical lenses.
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