Here is the actual headline from the source:
Research: Pastors plan to host Christmas services despite busyness of Christmas Day
Virtually all pastors will have service on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas day. The overwhelming, overwhelming majority (at least 91% out of a sample of 1000 pastors) will have Christmas day service. Hardly a story, especially if if doesn’t affect your own ability to worship as you see fit.
But by all means, oh holier-than-thous, let’s go ahead and tsk tsk the others. It will make you feel superior. Merry Christmas.
My dad was a fundamentalist Methodist minister (the last one north of the Mason-Dixon, I believe), and i have to admit that as a little kid, I hated it when Christmas fell on Sunday. The whole Santa Claus thing was pretty much out the window as we all rushed off to Sunday school!
But, having said that, the entire month of December was a sheer delight at church — with Christmas pageants, Christmas parties (every group had its own), live Christmas nativity scenes, Christmas caroling, and, of course, the Christmas services where Dad got the chance to preach the message of Salvation to packed houses.
I look back on all of that with fond memories now — but, I still hated Christmas falling on a Sunday!