Here’s the third in the repeat of my Sunday series during the month of December on the fascinating abolitionist history behind some of our most beloved Christmas hymns. Pro-lifers identify closely with those 150 years ago who fought to free another oppressed class of people. (Also see “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” and “O Holy Night.”) This week…

“O Little Town of Bethlehem”

Episcopalian Pastor Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was so outspoken in his opposition to slavery and support of the North he was asked to preach the funeral eulogy of slain President Abraham Lincoln.

“That solemn honor, in tandem with leading the congregation of Philadelphia’s Holy Trinity Church through the bloody years of the Civil War, had taken its toll,” writes author Ace Collins in his book, Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas. “Worn out and badly needing a spiritual rebirth, Brooks took a sabbatical… to tour the Middle East.”

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by LauraLoo

This is also a repeat from last year – too good to watch just once.  Merry Christmas everyone – and Happy Birthday Jesus!  <3

My Favourite Time of Year is a traditional style Christmas song which was written by Leigh Haggerwood.  After three years of trying to persuade the record companies to back the project, he decided to do it himself. He gathered together 36 musicians which he collectively called The Florin Street Band and recorded the song at Trevor Horn’s studios in London.

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My niece is pregnant but her parents don’t know yet and she doesn’t have a lot of money.

Is it a good Christmas present to pay for the abortion myself or should I just pay for it and get her something more traditionally “Christmas-y”?

~ Alex, Yahoo Answers, December 22

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Accepting Abundance and Coming Home discuss a Minnesota high school pep rally “practical joke” which involved students who were blindfolded and then kissed passionately – by their parents.

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by LauraLoo

Repeat Christmas Lunch Break from last year – my favorite!  Merry Christmas everyone!!

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[HT: Stephen & Jamie]

Recently I wrote about five male celebrities I boycott for their pro-abortion views.

Today, I’ll tell you about five famous men whose careers I can feel good about supporting, because they believe in and profess the sanctity of life.

~ Kristen Walker of Live Action via Lifesite News, December 21

Last week actor Christian Bale drew attention to the plight of Chinese pro-life dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was previously jailed and is now under house arrest for documenting forced abortions and sterilizations in his country.

This week Women’s Rights without Frontiers, a pro-life group that has been trying to help Chen, announced it is launching a Christmas card campaign to support Chen.

“Send a Christmas card to encourage Chen Guangcheng and his family,” wrote WRWF president Reggie Littlejohn in a press release.  “Let them know that you are thinking about them and support them.  Also, let the Chinese Communist Party and the local officials know that Chen has supporters from all over the world.”

I asked Littlejohn how she would know Chen received our cards. She responded in an email:

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• One of the Planned Parenthood clinics which is closing in Washington provided RU-486 chemical abortions. Herald writer Sharon Salyer gets how RU-486 abortions work completely wrong:

  The Oak Harbor clinic, which operated three days a week, served a little more than 1,000 patients, said Kristen Glundberg-Prossor, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman.

  While surgical abortions were not performed at the site, women could prevent a pregnancy by getting from the clinic RU 486, the so-called abortion pill.

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