A Yuletide question Is Christmas rooked?

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To see how Christmas went from Nativity to festivity, think of the change as a chess game — it involved a king, a queen, a bishop and a bunch of pawns. It all started when Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell overthrew Britain’s King Charles I in 1653. As theologian David Taylor points out, Cromwell banned Christmas […]

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