The War on Christmas in July
Maybe it's a sign of getting older, but doesn't it seem like the War on Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year? Feels like I just took down my anti-Christmas decorations last month.
Maybe it's a sign of getting older, but doesn't it seem like the War on Christmas starts earlier and earlier every year? Feels like I just took down my anti-Christmas decorations last month.
David Horton | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics
In Russia they have a custom of diving into the river in the middle of winter, ice blocks floating, and then jumping out and rolling in the snow. In S...
Tony Campolo | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
We are trying to create a new movement that seeks to make faithfulness to Biblical Christianity an imperative for progressive politics.
Louise Sloan | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living
I was prepared for most of the ways in which single motherhood can be lonely and hard, but there were some details they left out of the manual. Like, how do you get rid of the Christmas tree?
Paula Gordon | Posted 12.25.2007 | Living
Crèche is the word the French use for "day care." "One species taking care of the young of another" is how zoologists use it. That singular Nazaren...
Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 12.25.2007 | Living
Starting tomorrow most will grow fatigued about reading about or hearing about the pros and cons of regifting. So here I am to suggest you start stocking a Gift Closet or at least a Cabinet-starting tomorrow.
Nanette Fondas | Posted 12.25.2007 | Living
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Realistic, fair wages, excellent childcare, health care for all kids!
RJ Eskow | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
He was innocent. He had no intention of hurting anyone. He was more concerned with the well-being of his fellow detainees than he was with himself. That's the kind of guy he was.
Trey Ellis | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
I won't say it was easy, that first Christmas Eve apart, sleeping in the guest room again, surrounded by more ghosts of Christmas past than ever haunted Ebenezer Scrooge.
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 12.24.2007 | Business
Just weeks ago, the holiday shopping season seemed headed for disaster. But in the waning hours before Christmas, the nation's retailers got their wis...
Ken Levine | Posted 12.24.2007 | Entertainment
As you prepare for the holiday traditions, take a moment to reflect on the true meaning of the season. And nowhere is that more present than in Vegas -- Bethlehem with slots.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
When is Christmas? And why? These are questions guaranteed to get you funny looks when you pop them, especially in a gathering of wassail-soaked rela...
Bruce Kluger | Posted 12.24.2007 | Home
Seven Christmases into the new millennium, and it's never been easier to catch the holiday spirit. Through Internet technology alone, we can swap se...
T. Jeremy Gunn | Posted 12.24.2007 | Business
The Christmas Enforcers, who have been selling the myth of a supposed 'war on Christmas' for years now are on the loose again. They are going to make you take just the right dose of Christmas.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
I know there are those of you out there with fantastic, loving families that you can't wait to see every year around this time. For the rest of us, how about every other year?
Joseph Romm | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
What will happen to Santa Claus when the Arctic is ice-free?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
I like sharing this story a friend shared with me as "the best sermon" my dear friend and mentor Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., who passed away last year, "never preached."
Daily Mail | Nigella Lawson | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
Christmas seems to instill an unparallelled tremor of expectation in people. We seem to feel that for this crucial period we must suddenly become grea...
Bill Curry | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics
Christians who wax proprietary about the day should tread carefully; one day the pagans may want their wreaths back and who knows what else.
John Farr | Posted 12.24.2007 | Entertainment
With passably funny Comedy Central take-offs undermining its stature as an important, enduring motion picture, is the new generation missing out?
Daily Mail | Posted 12.24.2007 | Entertainment
CATHERINE ZETA-JONES flies in her entire family from Mumbles, Wales, for a sunny Christmas in Bermuda. Catherine, husband Michael Douglas, son Dylan,...
Sherman Yellen | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. But here's a Christmas story with dogs, tears, politics, parents, tinsel and a traveling tree. Be warned, this goes from cat food to Access Hollywood with some politics thrown in.
Susan Madrak | Posted 12.23.2007 | Living
Christmas is that Spirit which transforms and you don't have to belong to anything but the human race to let it work its magic.
Linda Seger | Posted 12.22.2007 | Living
Bill O'Reilly has been saying that there's a war on Christmas going on. So far, everything has been quiet here in Colorado Springs.
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Eric Williams | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics