Once upon a time in America, Christmas was celebrated even in public schools as the birth of Jesus, and Halloween was at best a one-day affair — a few cupcakes in class followed by trick-or-treating at night.
Now? Halloween starts in August.
Stores everywhere are hawking their Halloween wares, and meanwhile, Christmas has been downgraded on most public school calendars as “holiday break” or “winter break.”
Christmas is offensive.
Halloween — a time of celebrating demons and spirits and the dead — is embraced.
And even during the Christmas season, it’s easy to fall into the trap of commercialism and forget the real reason for the season.
GraceAnna Castleberry talks about her creation, a devotion and game called “Manger in Danger.” It’s made to counter the popular, and far more secular, “Elf on a Shelf.”
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