One of the advantages of living in an increasingly multi-faith society is that it becomes increasingly more difficult to ignore matters of faith. Another is that there is a growing appreciation of the need to understand each other if we are going to be able to get along together.
This means that children in school will learn about the Christmas story and this last week I have had the opportunity of taking RE lessons for children in years 3-6 (aged 7-11) and exploring the Christmas story and why it is important to Christians.
It seems to me that at this time of year we get the media coming up with some story about how this council or that local authority are wanting to ban Christmas. But we don't hear of the many stories that Christians get at this time of year (and again at Easter) to share the story of our faith.
Here's one of the great resources that I was able to use this week. It's a 7+ minute video that tells the Christmas story and explains why Christmas is important and how it links in with the Easter story.
Why-Christmas-v1.mp4
