12.24.2008

Garrison Keillor: Christmas without translation


A man gets a keener sense of the divine in a church that is not your own. Maybe Luther and Calvin and Jan Hus and all them were dead wrong and literacy is not the key nor an understanding of Scripture, and maybe the essence of Christmas is dumb childlike wonder and the more you think about it, the less you understand. Which makes me glad I am no smarter than I am. Let's go have lunch.

[From Garrison Keillor: Christmas without translation | Salon ]

Noted by Midwest Bureau Cub Reporter Paul Knue.



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