Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was swatted again at her home in Georgia on Christmas morning. “I was just swatted,” she wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this. I appreciate […]
It’s Christmas morning, and chances are you have a lot going on. The kids are opening presents, and there’s wrapping paper strewn throughout the house. You might have food on the stove or in the oven ready for family to come by later. Or you may have family already at your house. […]
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the […]
The real claim of Christmas, for Christians, is that Truth and Love penetrated the cosmos. Christmas is a warm, loving, and tender season precisely for this reason. That warm fire, or bright sky, or joyful company, is made possible only because that God which ever lives and loves—to which the whole creation moves—entered the creation […]
Hector Berlioz was a professed atheist, but could anything as tender and touching as “L’Enfance du Christ” have been written by a man who did not believe? And what of Berlioz’s closing line to the work: “Oh my soul, what remains for you to do but shatter your pride before so great a mystery?” The […]
The question that has plagued the minds of fans since 1990 may finally be coming to an end — just how much money did the McCallister family have in the beloved Christmas classic “Home Alone”? The New York Times enlisted the help of economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to get to the […]
“O Holy Night” is a carol with a purity, beauty and a timeless message I dearly love. What I’ve always thought of as a humble yet glorious, affecting Christmas carol, turns out to have a vaguely spicy story behind it. Confession: I stopped writing this essay on “O Holy Night,” soured by something I couldn’t […]
Yes, the stable was real and the animals were real, but what were they really and how did they find their way into the Christmas story? What’s not to like about the Christmas story? A long journey, a quaint village, a pregnant mom and a worried dad, a grumpy innkeeper on a dark and stormy […]
A family trip to Walt Disney World (or any of the other Disney parks for that matter) involves saving tons of money. It’s not a cheap trip, and many families have to save for months or years to be able to make it work. Over the past few years, […]
A stunt designed to celebrate the coming of Christmas turned deadly, according to reports from the Russian community of Chelyabinsk. A man wearing a red robe to appear to be Grandfather Frost — a Russian version of Santa Claus — fell to his death from a 24-story residential building, according to the New York Post. […]
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