Cultural: May it please the Court of Quaker Opinion to know that our Christmas Social will focus on Bible-based songs and stories.

Spiritual: You mean those that glorify the experience of refugees and mix biblical metaphors?

Cultural: Why shouldn't the Feeding Miracle in the Gospels be compared to the Giving/Sharing of Christmas?

Spiritual: Because it justifies commercialism at the expense of the spiritual hunger that was meant to be satisfied.

Cultural: Would you deprive children of the joy of having a wish come true any more than of hungry people for food?

Spiritual: Children of God are never deprived ,but are blessed by the giving more than the receiving. That is the point of both the abundance and the leftovers of food in the Feeding Miracle.

Cultural: And you have a concern about Santa Claus too, we imagine.

Spiritual: Tis the season for a jolly song and dance? This, even as Friends, we forswear.