Our politics sucks, but our Christian future shines with hope

THE true gifts of Christmas are truth, love and peace. But we are at war, and we have to fight for these gifts. The New Dark Age is here. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or the Levant has declared war on all Christians, and the caliphate claims to have established, according to a press dispatch from London, one “breeding station” in some jungle in southern Philippines. The government has belied this claim, and one must believe one’s government; but it is prudent to take such denials with an abundance of caution.

With or without the ISIS, many in the West have banished God from the public square. The hostility is most evident this season. In his Christmas post, the American writer Don Feder, who used to write for the Boston Herald, and with whom I regularly correspond, provides some of the latest details of this war on Christmas.