Christmas Math: Hours Untangling, Tidying, and Cooking

Christmas might be a time for vacations, but it sure does require plenty of work. It turns out families are dedicating a staggering amount of time to ...

$10 Billion Spent on Unwanted Christmas Gifts

This holiday season, take a moment to ask yourself, “Does this person really want what I’m buying them?” A new survey finds the answer ...

How Einstein’s Mentor Saw History’s Miraculous Events

The great scientist Albert Einstein said that he stood on the shoulders of James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist. Maxwell’s insights into electromagnetism ...

A Path to Faith: The Hubble View

Author Philip Yancey writes:

Where I live in the Rocky Mountains, you can see several thousand stars with the naked eye on a clear night. All of them belong ...

Filthy Night, Fetid Night

Carrie McKean writes in an article on Christianity Today online:

When I think about the night of Jesus’ birth, the first picture that comes to mind ...

The Secret Life of Gift Cards

Gift cards make great stocking stuffers—just as long as you don’t stuff them in a drawer and forget about them after the holidays. Americans ...

English Pub's 77-Year-Old Christmas Decorations

A pub has been reusing the same 77-year-old Christmas decorations in its public bar for more than 60 years. Landlord David Short, 84, first put up the ...

Have a Happy HalloweenthanksgivingChristmaspalooza

We used to have a short Halloween season, a nice slow-paced Thanksgiving, and then around mid-November we'd see Christmas stuff out for sale. Well, ...

‘Loneliest Sheep’ Rescued After Two Years

Britain's so-called "loneliest sheep," which was stuck at the foot of a remote cliff in Scotland for at least two years, has been rescued. ...

Advent Season Portends Hope for Future

In a recent segment on NPR’s Morning Edition, Rev. Cameron Partridge shared about an idea he developed during his years as a college chaplain. "You ...