Because today is the Feast Day of St. Nicholas, we’re featuring the Santa papers: an unauthorized autobiography (Softcover edition, Kindle edition) by Wallis C. Metts Jr, (@wmetts) PhD, director of Graduate Studies in Communication at Spring Arbor University (@springarboru).
This "unauthorized autobiography" of Nicholas of Myra is a first person account of how a 4th century bishop became Santa Claus. Written, or translated if you prefer, by a college professor who raises barn cats and Christmas trees on a farm in south Michigan, this book sets the record straight about how this ancient saint became both a religious as well as a commercial icon. Brief, easily read by the fireside in an evening — even out loud — this book is fun and informative.
The St. Nicholas Center (@StNicholasCente), one of the largest Web-based resources on Nicholas, says this “breezy look introduces St. Nicholas, especially for evangelicals who may not know very much, if anything, about him. Told in contemporary vernacular in the saint's first-person voice.”
The book begins:
They got it wrong, mostly.
I realize nobody wrote it down until 400 years later. And, well, my own diaries and sermons were burned during the persecution under Diocletian. But I’d like to set the record straight, after so many centuries of distortion and exaggeration.
Buy it in time to share with your family for Christmas.
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