1.) Join us for our Resistance Chicks Christmas DAY Special! at 1:30 PM ET Charles Dickens, Christianity & the Timeless Message of: A Christmas Carol
There is something about #CharlesDickens' #AChristmasCarol that cuts deep into the hardest of hearts. What is it about these fictional stories that have moved people to tears over and over? The Gospel of #JesusChrist. Dickens had a hard life growing up. As a child his father was put into debtors prison and he worked sometimes 14 hours a day in a shoe blacking factory. He knew first-hand what hardship was like and he should have become a bitter old man just like his rascally character #EbenezerScrooge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008lykb #bbc4 20.00 Griff Rhys Jones reveals how #Dickens created #idea of a #traditional #family #christmas through 1 of his best-known #books, A Christmas #Carol. Published in 1843, the story of miserly #EbenezerScrooge captured the #imagination of #victorian #britain. #SantaClaus, Christmas #cards +#crackers were invented around the same time, but it was the #book that boosted Christmas, promoting the idea that Christmas is best celebrated with family.

I was going to write a little "joke" about how #MAGAs hate "#AChristmasCarol" because while #EbenezerScrooge is a MAGA hero through Chapter (Stave) One, he starts to go "#woke" after that. But then I just gave up on the whole thing, because it was predicated on the idea of MAGAs actually reading #CharlesDickens, and I realized...there's just no way, dude.

Wolfgang Tischer liest Charles Dickens’ »Weihnachtslied in Prosa« – live in vier Folgen ab 20.12.2021 https://www.literaturcafe.de/wolfgang-tischer-liest-charles-dickens-weihnachtslied-in-prosa/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=wolfgang-tischer-liest-charles-dickens-weihnachtslied-in-prosa #WeihnachtsliedInProsa #LiterarischesLeben #Literaturonline #EbenezerScrooge #CharlesDickens #Livestream #Twitch #Lego

For those who don't plan to watch #YouTube after December 10, and like the vintage #Christmas entertainment, enjoy (or download and then enjoy!) #BasilRathbone as #EbenezerScrooge in this three-part television adaptation of "A Christmas Carol"
Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFKfcohHy7E