All the way to modern times, admittedly now only in more traditional societies, it was common for travellers to travel very light and expect to be fed and put up by strangers, in exchange for either … (View Post)

There are some sites where Nativity denial is rampant. (View Post)

There's a lot of CV buffing in the Nativity story. A lot of the story is to set up the birth of Jesus as fulfilling multiple Old Testament prophecies. Indeed there is no evidence that Herod held… (View Post)

I was costume director for the nativity play*. I was particularly proud of my Dr Seuss style crowns. The vicar was less pleased by my substitution of nappies, baby powder and a rattle for the traditi… (View Post)

Yes, and this also correlates with the donkeys and sheep voting Reform yesterday. (View Post)