How N.T. Wright Stole Christmas (and you should be glad he did):

As it turns out, Wright is no Grinch.  He didn’t steal Christmas.  What he stole was a false Christmas, a de-contextualized and apolitical Christmas.  But we shouldn’t have bought that Christmas in the first place, and should have been embarrassed to display it so proudly on the mantle.  Good riddance, and Bah humbug.

Chris Castaldo on the Catholics Come Home marketing campaign:

I haven’t heard too many proponents of the New Evangelization compare their efforts to the legacy of Loyola and his Society of Jesus; but for me, an armchair church historian, the parallel is striking. With this connection in mind, I would like to offer two words of caution: one for Catholics and the other for Protestants.

The Noughtie List: the 2000s in Review

Denny Burk’s Top Ten YouTube Videos from 2009