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Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? #26

An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Churches

WHOSE Birthday? is for your personal inspiration, community education and sharing.

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Table of Contents

Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?

An Advent and Christmas Resource for Families, Individuals and Congregations

Brief Introduction

Reflections & Activities

Society for the Prevention of Useless Christmas Giving submitted by Karen Ellis

Finding Harmony in Advent: Do You Really Need More Stuff? by Melodie M. Davis

Christmas Gift Giving Criteria | Bah Humbug | Black Friday | Christmas Do-dads | 'Tis the Season for . . . | Simplifying Christmas all by Susan Vogt

How to Host an Alternative Gift Fair

What If the Goal of Our Economy Wasn't More But Better? from GodSpace and Story of Stuff Project

The Historical St. Nick, the White Santa, Marxist Pope and More: Podcast Christmas Special with guest Adam English (12/23/13) Homebrewed Christianity #22

The Best Books I've Read This Year: Need Ideas for an Oppositional Christmas? by Samuel Alexander

Whose Birthday? How-To

• What Happened to Christmas?
• Why a Simpler Christmas?
• Weekly Family Time: How to Use These Reflections & Activities
• Let Us Have a Truly Christ-like Christmas
• Top 10 Uses of "Whose Birthday?"
• More Exciting, Helpful Ways to Use "Whose Birthday?"
• Going Beyond "Whose Birthday?"
• Alternative Giving

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New Celebrations: Resources that reflect a more healthy, a more sane, a more theologically correct approach to more meaningful celebration of Christmas and other holidays.

Advent Conspiracy

Mustard Seed Associates (GodSpace)

Buy Nothing Day

Buy Nothing Christmas

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Brief Introduction

A quick internet search for 'simplifying Christmas' yields 2,370,000 results. To the average person, that would seem insurmountable. Why bother?

The articles for 'WHOSE Birthday?' #26 are drawn largely from colleague sites, groups that we trust. So, if you read some of the articles here and then snoop around on the site, we're confident that you will not be drawn into a scam.

The content of this edition of 'WHOSE Birthday?' is not the same as the podcast. The podcast is taken from the audio tracks of a previous edition of 'WHOSE Birthday?' So, this year you get a two-fer.

NOTE: The Creative Commons license only applies to the content on this site. Since most of the content of this edition is not on this site, contact the owner of the content you choose before you make copies.

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