The late Charles Schulz, the quiet and reserved bespectacled creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the entire Peanuts franchise, was once called a magician with a pencil, an artist who captured our imaginations and left us with a daily smile for well over a half-century.
It’s been two decades since the last original Peanuts comic strip ran in newspapers, and 55 years since Schulz’s beloved animated Christmas special first debuted on CBS television.
Yet, the charm of the hapless Charlie Brown and all the gang still resonates with young and old alike, especially at this time of year.
Why? It’s because a slow, rather rudimentary comic strip somehow still manages to communicate to a noisy world profound theological truth in simple,.