As recognition that religious majorities often make religious minorities feel left out, as well as to follow that pesky "separation of church and state" rule that keeps our country free, we don't use public schools to promote religion.
I hope your every holiday wish came true as far as the books you wanted. Are you going to write in them?
What we believe God is, even today, is almost precisely what we believe Santa Claus is. And I say this with no disrespect to either. Let's just consider the similarities.
I would like to share a Christmas story that many people today do not know. The true story of how the tale of Jesus and Mary saved the nascent religion of Islam from annihilation.
You can choose to participate in the obligatory consumer materialism of the season or choose to focus on what is real: love, joy, and the generosity of your presence with loved ones.
American music gives us more than enough to provide a great list of songs to play this Christmas. I dug up twelve songs from a variety of styles to inspire you on the holiday.
OK, diversity fans and PC police, here's the ultimate holiday greeting: you combine the world's four main holidays celebrated at year's end: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan, and you get...
I returned to Sri Lanka for eight months after the tsunami to work on my book about the island Not Quite Paradise. I thought I had finished the book in 2004, but then the wave hit. And everything changed.
In March our label, Bully! Pulpit Records in partnership with Nettwerk Music Group released the debut album from an amazingly talented singer named Mo...
According to Eamon Javers at Politico, Barack Obama has explicitly referenced Jesus Christ more frequently as president than George W. Bush ever did. ...
The end of a year always provides an opportunity to think about the true joys of living in this wonderful country we call America. One quality integral to the American sense of community is giving.
Happy Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Festivus and all the rest of it. Here in New Orleans the balconies are glowing and the holidays are n...
The spirit of the holiday season is now spreading all over the world. For most people, this is the time of good will. I believe that we should take the good will of the holiday season into our everyday lives.
Without a doubt, eBay occupies prime virtual real estate in our digital malls. Out in the real world, malls do not allow the KKK and neo-Nazis to rent space and pedal hate.
Not only can the leaders of Los Angeles not properly implement even basic economic development projects, but we can't even properly commercialize Christmas.
Instead of focusing on what you don't have -- bring your awareness to what you do have. Friends, family, a job, your health, freedom to see whomever and do whatever you please, the ability to be of service, etc.
Dear Santa, This year, I am not asking for a cure for breast cancer, or cures for world hunger, ignorance, the crappy world economy, homelessness, th...
It's a Wonderful Life can feel oppressively nostalgic and achingly sentimental in spots, but to its enduring credit, the movie never shrinks from portraying the dark flip-side of American life.
To disappointed Obama supporters, no longer enthralled by the chants of "Yes we can!" I got copies of His Excellency: George Washington, 1776, Lenin: A New Biography and Fidel Castro.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land / We hoped Santa Obama would bring fortune in hand. / Small businesses hung stockings by the chimney with care, / In hopes that stimulus funding soon would be there.
If Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," does that imply that "Cursed are the war makers"? What does that mean for a nation that has spent more than $946 billion dollars on war making in Iraq and Afghanistan?
