Charlie Brown Christmas Special: An Inside Job - The Atlantic

Charlie Brown’s Inside Job

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  What gives the 1965 Peanuts special its staying power?

"...For half a century, it’s been one of the most significant phrases in American Christianity. 

A prelude to something sacred in an unlikely place: the Gospel of Luke, King James translation, as recited by Linus van Pelt in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
...My earliest grasp of how Christianity worked came from the Charlie Brown Christmas special—funny, cool, beloved by all. 

The special was first broadcast in 1965...Read all.