Long before little Linus walked onstage with his blue blanket in 1965 to deliver a monologue from the Gospel of St. Luke, another television show answered that question burning in the hearts of men ...

Christmas Day is a bit like the challenge of children at play: “Ready or not, here I come.” Though those of us who celebrate the holiday have many ministry projects to complete, presents to wrap, ...

With apologies to Charles Dickens. HUMBUG! I HUFFED and puffed my way through the newspaper lobby, crammed as it was with holiday well-wishers yammering their loathsome clichés of merry this and happy ...

A blanket of white covers the ground here in the EUP. The nights are cold. The days are short. The sun might appear for a few hours, or it might remain hidden behind snow clouds, but one thing is ...

Image Credit: Dikushin Dmitry / Shutterstock. What really defines Christmas? Is it Santa? The big family meal? Festivities and colorful lights? Another reason to splurge on shopping and gifting? It ...

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central message, but have trouble communicating it. Like the secularists, they try to ...

An unexpected revelation has shocked many Charlie Brown fans for decades: the realization that Linus’ famous Bible monologue from Charles Schulz’s A Charlie Brown Christmas was nearly cut out ...

Audience members decked out in an array of Christmas pajamas, fancy suits and Grinch costumes, erupted with laughter as the Grinch, played by Reed Sigmund, entered the stage of the Children’s Theatre ...

She was the first woman I fell in love with, and I had just told her so on a brutally cold afternoon. We were walking to her parked car in front of the old college building where we had both attended ...

Thursday is Christmas Day, one of the two most important days of the year (Easter is the other). We celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ on this day and rightfully so. Burl Ives sang, “Holly, ...