Christmas

Why “Celebrate” Christmas and the Epiphany?

Why celebrate Christmas? Why throw a party, instead of going to church, in the first place? Is not this religious holiday, by nature calling us to quiet contemplation? Did you know that Christmas celebrations were banned in Scotland until 1958?  I certainly did not, not until my son started working on his sixth-grade “Christmas around […]

The Christmas Gift We Didn’t Want – PJ Media

Merry Christmas, Dear Reader! I’m writing from deep behind enemy lines in the bluest of blue southern California, where Bidenomics has made the cost of living astronomically high. But being the gift that keeps on giving (whether we want it to or not), Bidenomics continues to spread its dismal and destructive economic policies across […]

The Twelve Days of Christmas ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Don’t mistake me for a spoil-sport: on the contrary, I should like to revive all the good old customs genuinely associated with the joyous season of Christmas. In city after city, I have seen Christmas parades on Thanksgiving Day! One might think that we were celebrating the birth of Mammon, rather than that of Jesus, […]

Is There Still No Room at the Inn? – PJ Media

Can you imagine how today’s advertisers would’ve exploited it? How social media would have been abuzz? Visit the hotel where Jesus stayed. Instead of “George Washington slept here,” we’d learn “Jesus Christ slept here.” The comic character Felix Unger in “The Odd Couple,” when trying to convince people to do crazy […]