Shane Claiborne

Bring in 2011 with the youth of Afghanistan

I know it's a real downer to come out of the most joyous season of the year -- with Christmas trees, hot chocolate, and 450 billion dollars in retail spending -- and talk about kids getting killed. But for the early Christians, the slaughter that immediately followed the birth of Jesus was a detail of the Christmas story that they did not want to erase from their memory.

By Shane Claiborne | December 31, 2010; 12:12 PM ET | Comments (0)