In the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, a staple of winter life in the Carson Valley was Sharkey’s celebration of a Serbian Christmas. For locals, it provided one more holiday just 12 days after the Dec. 25 celebration.
Jan. 6 is the date most Orthodox Christians celebrate Christ’s birth. In fact there have been times when tensions arose once those two dates became etched in the respective stones of the Eastern and Western church.
So who’s right? Well, the short answer is that if God thought “the date” was important, it would have been in Scripture. It is not. Interestingly, for the first two centuries or so after Christ’s birth, there were a variety of dates suggested…