‘Home Alone’ Is 30, And This Christmas Classic Is Even Better With Age
The most valuable lessons of ‘Home Alone’ require a little living first. The film offers much more than just Kevin McCallister vs. The Wet Bandits.
This Collection Of Deep-Cut Carols Will Help Prepare Your Heart For Christmas
To help inject some fresh wonder into your holiday season, here is a list of lesser-known hymns and carols that pertain to both Christmas and Advent.
Top 5 Worst Christmas Song Lyrics Ever
Christmastime is filled with great music, but here are five lyrics that deserve coal in the songwriter’s stocking.
10 Non-Christmas Songs You Should Listen To This Christmas Week
While not traditionally Christmas songs, these melodies remind us why the incarnation of the Savior of the world was oh so glorious.
Here’s A Fresh Christmas Pops Playlist To Liven Up Your Holiday
Good holiday music is so abundant that, if we wanted, we could easily play it from Thanksgiving through Epiphany and never repeat a track.
Why ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Is The Best Post-1960s Christmas Tune
Perhaps ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ is just a song. But it’s a remarkable one in a way, and if we were still writing Christmas songs these days, we probably wouldn’t write it again.
With His New EP, Joe Scarborough Declares War On Christmas
It would be better if he didn’t want to wish us a Merry Christmas. Points for not successfully making the War on Christmas a real thing even if he’s really, really trying to?
16 Of The Coolest, Most Underplayed Christmas Songs Ever
If you don’t like Christmas music, this list may turn you around. If you already love Christmas music, here are a few gems you may never have heard.
A No-Fail Christmas Caroling Guide For Even The Most Bashful Singers
Here are some common carols (and tips for how to sound good) that can help set your caroling plans in motion this holiday season.
Why You Should Go Christmas Caroling This Year, And How To Start
We underestimate the amount of joy and community bonding that can happen if we take time out of our busy lives to sing collectively with our neighbors.
Here’s A Christmas Pop Music Playlist That Won’t Drive You Insane With Schmaltz
If you need an antidote to vanilla and dumbed-down Christmas music at this time of year and don’t feel like confronting your school, choir, or town official, there’s a solution.
24 Things A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Album Is Like
Listening to Mannheim Steamroller at Christmas sounds like Jim McMahon’s shades harbored a secret desire to be a classical conductor.
Why ‘Mary Did You Know’ Is The Most Biblically Illiterate Christmas Tune
Anyone who has even a slight familiarity with the biblical account of Christ’s conception and birth shouldn’t need to ask if Mary knew, because the Bible plainly tells us she did.
Can Progressives Stop Making My Christmas Traditions Political?
My mom went to see George Frideric Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ and the maestro went off on an anti-Trump rant. Is nothing sacred anymore?
5 Christmas Songs No One Should Ever Sing Again
While I stand by my decision to start Christmas carols in October, I accept that some of them are just terrible.
7 Ways To Put Jesus Back Into Christmas This Year
If you are a Christian—and last time I checked Christmas was still a Christian holiday—it matters not whether your Christmas is simple or sumptuous as long as it is sanctified.
16 Lovely Songs You’ll Want On Your Advent Playlist
We cheat ourselves when we go straight from Thanksgiving to Christmas without fully appreciating the opportunity Advent offers for reflection, preparation, and joyful anticipation.
10 Worst Christmas Songs Of All Time
Sean Connery saw your mommy and Santa Claus, and he has a ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’ response to explain it.
How Singing Together Can Address Terror
Singing together is a powerful form of expressing and generating solidarity and resistance to evil. Christmas can help us regain our voices.
Dear Bill Nye: Christmas And Music Desperately Need Your Help
Public schools really need Bill Nye to break out his debunker on their selection of Christmas music for recitals and pageants.