“Christmas” Articles

The thrill of hope offered in the Advent season is just what we need to recover from this divisive election.

The Christmas-horror canon uses myth and violence to re-frame and re-center our understanding of the biblical Christmas narrative.

We wander on a bizarre journey, unsure of what, exactly, we are searching for, and then, Christmas.

Christmas has come, once again, ready or not.

“Away in a Manger” is a song about safety, but it also reminds us of Christ’s compassion for us in difficult hours and on dark roads.

Centuries of waiting and longing in the time before and after the life of Christ give the season its shape.

The tragedy of lost childhoods can be redeemed and the wistfulness we sometimes feel over the past is an intimation and foretaste of a future of healing and joy and restoration.

In all these Christmas symbols and practices, in all their manifestations and iterations and alterations, we see humanity’s earnest, finite attempts to express the ineffable.

What would happen if we started to integrate the sadder parts of our world with the declaration that the Prince of Peace was born?

The crew is joined by E. Stephen Burnett to discuss why Ridley Scott would back away from miraculous elements of the story in Exodus: Gods and Kings. We then cover Kirk Cameron’s bombed Christmas movie and the year-end lists that will soon be upon us (including our own).

Apple’s holiday promotion provides Christians with a unique opportunity to consider how the blending of the sacred with market forces blurs our vision.

“While biological, historical, political, and social regularities exist — these are not mere figments of our imaginations — history is not so frozen in the death grip of sameness as world-worn cynics would have us believe.”

The Common Grace goodness of Dr. Seuss’s holiday story.

The Santa myth is awkwardly forced into intersecting with the “real” world in ways that other great myths aren’t.

Let’s not fall into the trap of believing that the moment technology is involved, we become inherently anti-social, or that “instantaneous mediated nostalgia” and “real-life human connection” are mutually exclusive.