Answering Pop Music’s Malaise this Christmas

Conservative Christians are often tempted at the onset of the Christmas season to see the celebrations as a resurgence of true religion in the public square. But Christmas celebrations today are more a commemoration of the death of Christendom than an expression of its acceptance. It is not insignificant that most of our Christmas music is noticeably old, and that even new releases attempt to sound old. Nostalgia is a form of mourning.