By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Crisis Magazine - In making Christmas the most magical time of the year, it feels like our sad, post-Christian culture is clinging, like a lost child with a tattered teddy bear, to some sort of nostalgic longing for the supernatural... The tree is up, and the lights are twinkling. There is excitement abroad as the celebrations begin. Who dares to deny the delight, grumble at the good cheer, quash the carols, tear down the tinsel, be churlish to the children and be a grump, a Grinch, or a bah humbug Scrooge?