“Christmas” Articles

These stories of redeeming transformation are ultimately stories of uprooting, as their characters are inaugurated into a new life.

Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

These memories could make holidays without my daughter miserable. But the opposite is true. Remembrance makes Christmas all the more precious.

What transforms Christmas into something sacred is not its historical origin, but the heart of the believer.

Alexander Payne’s latest film proclaims the chance of finding rest even amidst our deepest sorrows.

Waits’ inimitable barroom baritone paints a vivid picture of a lonely soul living at the edge of Christmas.

Few of us moderns know the origins of Dickens’ contagious Christmas Spirit, the joyful and perhaps mythic spring from which he created A Christmas Carol.

Advent was historically preoccupied with the second coming of Christ and focused on the last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

Santa’s rationalization for fighting was a one-time occurrence, but his commitment to address children’s needs is permanent.

We got a lot of good things from the Greeks and the Romans, but not the concept of God as a loving, suffering servant.

Many of our most beloved secular and sacred carols have sorrowful connotations intrinsically wrapped up inside them.

The Hawkeye Scrooge faced his past, burned the suit, and gained something of a daughter in the process.

A Castle for Christmas is hopeful in the same way that Advent is a season of hope.

While the Christmas story is Marvel-like in the sense that it explains Jesus’s supernatural powers by showing us his supernatural origins, it’s not fictional.

Cobra Kai’s lack of mercy on display makes us look for a different way, which the Christmas tradition provides. Christmas is all about mercy.

By opening himself and giving to others, Ebenezer Scrooge is living a more robust life himself.