The commercialization of Christmas has almost reduced our festivities into a Christ-less mess. Today, re-living that historic Christ-event isn’t easy even for the faithful few. Aren’t we prisoners of the ‘hopes’ and ‘fears’ of the middle class dream? I sometimes wonder if all the expressions of our festivities are increasingly middle class assertions. And therefore, it takes spiritual insight and discipline to recognize the Christ-event and its significance to our collective human experience. Th...