The holiday Nazi just came up to my office to remind me to stop calling our Christmas party a Christmas party (in a jolly email from yesterday).  I never thought it would happen to me.  She says I may be offending a Jewish man who works with us.  He is a buddhist, I say back.  And he doesn’t care.  And so I was glad to read this paragraph, where a rabbi says Christians should do a better job of defending Christmas:

There is nothing wrong with sleigh bells, Bing Crosby, and Christmas pudding, but I should hope Christians would want more than just that, and as Christmas becomes more and more secularized, I am not sure they get it [...] In the end, the problem of Christmas is not mine any more than Christmas itself is. The real Christmas challenge belongs to Christians: how to take Christmas out of the secularized public domain and move it back into the religious sphere once again.

Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman said that.  It comes from an article in Christianity Today from 14 years ago, back when the War on Christmas was just on the horizon of the American landscape.  The author’s suggestion for how to take back Christmas?  Start with Easter.