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Dan Wooldridge explores how the first ones who chronicled the life of Jesus provided a model for communicating in diverse global cultures and emerging generation.
Dan Wooldridge notes that the romanticized and consumerized modern views of Christmas obscure the raw reality of the first Christmas. But in that reality there is true hope.
These two articles from our archives describe Christmas then and now in the context of a flat world, and present the challenges to communicating the message in a flat world.
The flat world phenomena are not altogether new. Dan Wooldridge shows how the Roman Empire created a flat world and set the stage the first Christmas.
Ad Age asks: "Did Wal-Mart overstep its bounds with a holiay website that allows children to build a toy wish list that the retailer e-mails to their parents?
Jim Hancock / Oct 24 2006
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Dan Wooldridge shows how we can reflect more deeply on the characters in the Biblical Christmas story and come to a greater awe and wonder of the birth and life of Christ.
Morgan Spurlock, who took on McDonalds in "Super Size Me," is taking on the whole of retail excess in his holiday spendtacular spoof, "What Would Jesus Buy?"
Jim Hancock / Nov 28 2008
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Dan Wooldridge recommends the video on the Advent Conspiracy to challenge the commercialization of Christmas.
Bradley J. Moore has taken about all the generic Christmas greetings he can stand. And that's that.
On December 23 — the traditional day on which Festivus is celebrated — Bradley J. Moore began an airing of grievances about the annual Christmas letter from an as yet unnamed family, which he now picks up anew.
Dan Wooldridge has been thinking about the way we "do Christmas" in this part of the world and the dissatisfaction fueled by this world of choices, choices, and more choices.
So here is my year-end anti-self-promoting Generic Holiday Newsletter. It’s chock-full of disappointments, bad news, and frightening developments. I ended up sending it to a handful of cynical friends like me; people I knew would appreciate it.
Christmas greetings and well-wishes from InsideWork.
We at InsideWork would like to convey to you our wish that you have a very Merry Christmas.

detail | first commercial Christmas Card | 1843

This is the season when families, friends and businesses exchange Holiday Greetings. Whether we are wishing a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza Greetings or just Best Wishes in the New Year, people in the West have a long tradition of greeting cards
Dan Wooldridge came across the most fabulously "legalese" holiday wish making it's way around the Internet.
Jesus came to know from experience "the problems of making a living, the haunting insecurity of the life of the working man, the ill-natured customer, the man who would not pay his debts...." William Barclay on why the Jesus of the biblical narratives is so compelling.
InsideWork / Dec 25 2009
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