Upon news of a Christmas variety show benefiting Planned Parenthood, my National Review colleague Kevin Williamson tweeted: “You’re getting the story all wrong . . . It was the grave that was empty, not the manger.” The reference, of course, is to Christmas and Easter, two days crucial to Christian beliefs about salvation. Year after year, the Internet tends to notice Christmas or holiday cards from or benefiting the country’s largest abortion provider, sometimes mentioning peace and in at least one case being explicit about the Christian story: “For Unto Us a Child is Born,” one option provides ...

December 18 2017

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A Culture in Need of that Manger Scene

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Upon news of a Christmas variety show benefiting Planned Parenthood, my National Review colleague Kevin Williamson tweeted: “You’re getting the story all wrong . . . It was the grave that was empty, not the manger.” The reference, of course, is to Christmas and Easter, two days crucial to Christian beliefs about salvation....

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