“Over the past 50 years,” Brenda Verner writes, there has been an organized campaign to “expunge God from the public square” at Christmastime.
Fueled by activist lawyers, courts and the media’s PC police, Santa has replaced Jesus, “Happy Holidays” has snubbed “Merry Christmas” and the business of buying presents has obscured the greatest gift ever given to mankind.
Well, not anymore.
Now, Verner, author of “Happy Birthday, Jesus” and “101 Ways to Have a Christian Christmas,” is sounding the trumpet call for believers in Christ to stop surrendering the sacred to the secular and start taking back what has been offensively branded “Xmas.”
Through a fresh new column on WND’s Diversions page Verner, known as “The Christian Christmas Lady,” will put the secularization of Christmas into a powerful perspective:
“Santa, a seemingly harmless Christmas character, has been morphed into the ultimate usurper – an alternative god,” she writes, for example. “Santa, armed with his elves, his reindeer, along with fascinating lines of marching toy soldiers, accompanied by endless assortments of cute animal characters and dancing snowmen, has the power to orchestrate formidable distractions away from reverent presentations of Christmas.”
For a limited time (the columns will cease after Christmas itself), each week Verner will not only remind Christians of what they have lost in surrendering the culture war over Christmas but also offer ways to get it back.
Boldly, Verner proclaims, “We are still ‘one nation under God’ – ‘We the people’ shall continue to preserve our cultural tradition of spreading the Christmas spirit and shall continue to openly, without hesitation, wish everyone in our nation and in our world a very ‘Merry Christmas!'”
 Brenda J. Verner |
Brenda J. Verner, Ed.M., Harvard University, is president of Verner Communication and a nationally known media analyst specializing in stereotyping research and human-resource development. Her extensive experience in the areas of women’s studies, media arts and Africana studies has not only led to several published essays and television appearances but also opened the door for Verner to lecture at scores of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Notre Dame and many others.
Verner describes herself as a “domestic diva” who has been a lifelong “Christmas person.” In 1983 she launched a Christmas button marketing campaign, wrote the book
“Happy Birthday, Jesus” and adopted the title of “The Christian Christmas Lady,” whose motto is “Jesus – The Heart of Christmas.”
In direct response to the annual cultural conflicts that some refer to as “the Christmas wars,” Brenda Verner authored the book, “101 Ways To Have A Christian Christmas.” Her Christ-centered project ideas were designed to be what she calls “cultural tools” that “we the people” can implement each year to protect and expand the unifying tradition of observing a reverent Advent season – the American celebration of Christian Christmas.
Now Verner’s “Christian Christmas Lady” column can be found each week through Christmas on WND’s Diversions page.
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