Christmas Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/christmas/ AUTHOR | SPEAKER | MISSIOLOGIST | AGITATOR Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:44:43 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/mikefrost.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-MF.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Christmas Archives » Mike Frost https://mikefrost.net/tag/christmas/ 32 32 116298986 Four paintings for the four weeks of Advent https://mikefrost.net/four-paintings-for-the-four-weeks-of-advent/ https://mikefrost.net/four-paintings-for-the-four-weeks-of-advent/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:16:31 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=28317 It will soon be Advent, the most beautiful of church seasons, celebrated over the four Sundays preceding Christmas. You might not be part of a liturgical church tradition, but marking each Sunday with a reading and the lighting of a candle can be a rich way to prepare yourself, your family, your congregation for the […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/four-paintings-for-the-four-weeks-of-advent/feed/ 10 28317 Is this the greatest Christmas painting of all time? https://mikefrost.net/greatest-christmas-painting-time/ https://mikefrost.net/greatest-christmas-painting-time/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:56:17 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27513 It’s called Scène du massacre des Innocents (“Scene of the massacre of the Innocents”), and it was painted by the largely overlooked Parisian painter, Léon Cogniet in 1824. Today it hangs in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes. If it’s not the greatest of Christmas paintings, it must be one of the most haunting and affecting. […]

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]]> https://mikefrost.net/greatest-christmas-painting-time/feed/ 42 27513 Which Christ are you trying to keep in Christmas exactly? https://mikefrost.net/christ-trying-keep-christmas-exactly/ https://mikefrost.net/christ-trying-keep-christmas-exactly/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:16:10 +0000 https://mikefrost.net/?p=27376 Why is it that the people most likely to demand that we “keep Christ in Christmas” seem to know so little about the historical birth of Jesus! If they did, they would have no sentimental attachment to traditional nativity scenes and they definitely wouldn’t want to have them placed in centers of commercialism like shopping […]

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