Christmas in the Crosshairs

In this podcast Jamie Howison speaks with Gerry Bowler, a man perhaps best-known as “Professor Christmas,” seeing as he is the author of three books on the topic: The World Encyclopedia of Christmas, Santa Claus: A Biography, and Christmas in the Cross-Hairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World’s Most Celebrated Holiday. Together they explore why this annual celebration is (most often) on December 25th, why it’s been a mixed blessing throughout the centuries and together they lament the lack of great Advent hymnody.

To find out more about Gerry visit his website and follow him on Facebook.