How My Parents’ Divorce Forever Affected Our Holidays
Holidays are always hard in blended families. I was a reject from a twice-broken family, and I didn’t know what to do with myself at holidays other than hide.
Here’s How To Tell Your Kids That Santa Claus Is Real
What has become a secular symbol of greed and pop sentimentality — probably the worst possible way to celebrate Jesus’ birth — can be reinvested with meaning that points to the true Messiah.
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.
Washington Post Blasts Melania Trump’s Outfit After Finally Approving The First Lady’s Christmas Decorations
The Post laid into the first lady after briefly approving of this year’s December decorations after chastising last year’s display as a “nightmare forest.”
I Lost My Girlfriend In A Hallmark Movie. This Is My Story
This is the side of the story you never hear in a Hallmark movie.
Inside ‘The Polar Express’ Are Deep Lessons About Fatherhood And Becoming A Man
As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, we can gain a deeper appreciation of ‘The Polar Express’ by seeing how it celebrates the best of manhood, exploring the role of a father in his boy becoming a man.
The Clock Is Running Out For Impeachment
Democrats conceded yesterday that they will not finish impeachment by Thanksgiving and are now out of scheduling wiggle room.
What To Cling To When Death Comes At Christmas
The first empty grave is only the first grave to empty, for on the last day all graves will be empty—Bre’s and those of all we mourn at Christmas who have died in Christ.
These Three Post-Christmas Feast Days Highlight The Church’s Martyrs
The story of Jesus’s birth and persecution, plus the feasts devoted to Christian martyrs on the 28th and 29th, deserve a closer look.
I’m a Jew. Feel Free To Wish Me A ‘Merry Christmas,’ America!
I’m Jewish but should you see me and wish me a merry Christmas, I’ll wish you one right back.
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?
What Apollo 8’s Mission Overcame To Give America A Christmas Miracle
NASA’s ambitious goal involved several risks. Previously, the highest orbit for manned spacecraft had been only 853 miles above the earth in Gemini XI, and the moon was nearly 300 times farther.
Catholic Senior Living Center Bans Residents From Saying ‘Merry Christmas’
A senior living center has banned its residents from saying ‘Merry Christmas’ and displaying any Christmas cards or religious decor in common areas.
This Christmas, Don’t Forget To Reach Out To Your Struggling Friends
The holidays present a wonderful, idyllic (and idealized) opportunity to gather and reunite with friends and distant loved ones, but can also heighten a sense of isolation.
How Keeping Christmas In My Childhood School Lifted A Dark Year
I didn’t know why we had a meager houseplant in the place of a Christmas tree. Didn’t everybody have a ‘Christmas plant’?
Brilliant Engineer Gets Revenge On Package Thieves With A Homemade Glitter Bomb
YouTuber Mark Rober was sick of thieves nabbing packages from his front porch, so he designed a massive glitter bomb set to deploy when the culprits opened the stolen box.
What Makes ‘Die Hard’ A Christmas Movie
As far as there can be an objective way to classify what counts as a Christmas movie, ‘Die Hard’ meets those requirements.
Megan McArdle On Kitchen Appliance Guidance And Holiday Meals
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle discusses The Weekly Standard, the best kitchen gadget gifts, and what to make for Christmas dinner this year.
Solzhenitsyn’s ‘In The First Circle’ Is A Surprisingly Appropriate Advent Read
The book asks, ‘How do you go on living when suffering and injustice will follow you all the way to the grave?’
God Raped Mary, And Other Insane Reactions To Christmas This Year
What better way to bring 2018 to a close than by watching people mock, deliberately misinterpret, or demonstrate that they’re just plain ignorant about religion?
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