No "top five" today. Just a question: In the Christian calendar, Christmas continues until Epiphany (January 6). So if you take your decorations down this weekend, are you part of the "war on Christmas"? On a similar note, why have almost all the organizations that made such a big deal about putting Christ back in Christmas already dropped references to Christmas from their website home pages? Was all that really just about the shopping season?

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Rowan Williams on Iraq and Israel:

• Pray for the little town of Bethlehem | We mustn't forget the plight of Arab Christians (Rowan Williams, The Times, London)
  
  
• Christians suffer for Iraq, says archbishop | Rowan Williams warns of war's deadly backlash (The Times, London)
  
  
• Anglican leader blasts war in Iraq | The U.S.-led coalition's "shortsightedness and ignorance" in Iraq have endangered the lives of Christians across the Middle East, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in a scathing commentary Saturday (Associated Press)