Christmas Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/christmas/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:38:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Christmas Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/christmas/ 32 32 A Special Kind of Giving https://mind-at-work.com/special-kind-giving/ Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:08:28 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=721 The Christmas season encourages us to shift our attention from receiving to giving, and that is a blessing because it frees us for a time from the prison of ego. Today’s financial uncertainty, however, curtails the kind of giving that involves spending money, so people need to seek other kinds. One special form of giving [...]

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]]> The Christmas Billboard Controversy https://mind-at-work.com/christmas-billboard-controversy/ Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:05:04 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=712 Times Square billboards are rather prominent, so it was inevitable that the message recently posted there by an atheist group would get a reaction. It said: “Who needs Christ in Christmas? Nobody.” (Last year the message was “Keep the Merry. Dump the Myth.”) Christians take offense at such insults to their faith. Why, they wonder, [...]

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