Getting Men to Bake Christmas Cookies

A survey on men's attitudes about Christmas shopping may provide useful information for busy women. Apparently, many men dread holiday shopping so ...

Discouraged Woman Learns What Good Shepherds Do

As a young mother, one Christmas brought Brenda Nixon to despair. Amid all the holiday stress, her husband's job was shaky and the grim possibility ...

Favorite Winter Holiday Activities

Americans say the following are their favorite activities during the winter holiday season:

Celebrating family traditions: 48 percent. Cooking, baking ...

Christmas Any Time

In June I was waiting in a clinic for my doctor's appointment when an older couple arrived. "Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!" the older ...

A Valentine's Typo

During the church service, my son enjoys searching for typographical errors in the church bulletin, since I am the church secretary. At the service on ...

Parents Make Happy Holidays

I'm lucky my parents have stayed together. Unlike so many of my friends, I've never had to cry on a holiday.

Christmas Without Santa

I'm not sure anyone can experience what Christmas really means without confronting that sense of lost innocence and the potential for disillusionment ...

Innkeepers for Today

If all Christians did something extra for just one person this Christmas, don't you think that the holiday would be much nicer, more memorable, and ...

No Creche in Our Lives

Many of us have found our sensitivities insulted and our convictions offended as court rulings removed the creches from the lawns of our city halls. It's ...

The First Nativity Scene

In 1224, inspired by the sight of shepherds tending their flocks in the moonlight, St. Francis of Assisi asked a wealthy friend from Greccio, Italy, to ...