I’m off to India for a family wedding — perhaps we’ll wave to Santa from the window seat! — so here’s plenty of holiday cheer to last until I get back:

• A flash mob for Christmas (Blogging Religiously)
• Colbert Takes the Christ Out of Christmas (Commonweal)
• My Magi: Crab, Crocodile and Sea Horse (Maureen Dowd for The New York Times)
• TV’s 9 Best Christmas (and 1 Festivus) Clips (Religion Dispatches)

And in honor of how I’ll be spending Christmas:

In case of breaking news while I’m away, here’s a Top 5 list of religion news sites that should keep you posted:

• Beliefnet News
• CNN Belief Blog
• Huffington Post Religion
• JTA: Jewish & Israel News
• Catholic News Agency

Happy Holidays!

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