With both Christmas and New Year's Day falling on a Wednesday, we offer this mid-point link list today, with the regular schedule returning January 8th. (Actually, I think that's supposed to say, "returning, Lord willing on January 8th … ")

• If you don't like the translation choice on your boxed Christmas cards, you have to do some minor editing, like this person did.

• One Christmas song making the rounds this year—and showing the liabilities in the "songwriting by committee" approach—was this 11-minute video presented December 22nd at North Point Community Church …

• … But nothing was funny about a theft a few miles away where Christian radicals in greater Atlanta deliberately stole nearly 200 wall calendars considered morally inappropriate from a mall kiosk.

• In Canada, a Christian bookstore owner spread good cheer by placing a clamping "boot" device on cars using spaces assigned to her store. It cost drivers $85 to free their vehicles.

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