As Christmas approaches, it renews a long-standing conflict over the holiday. It is religious versus secular. It is spiritual versus…
Memorizing the Middle English of Geoffrey Chaucer — as required in the senior English curriculum of long ago — I…
When I was growing up, Santa Claus was an inside joke that we all shared. Christmas Eve was at Grandma…
The religion, the faith, the belief-species owing its origin to the Babe of Bethlehem has experienced pangs and pains aplenty…
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Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holiest cities, are both located in Saudi Arabia. As guardians of these sacred sites, the…
Rejoice, all ye faithful! Tax Reform has passed the Senate and the American people will be getting more of their…
Holiday wreaths being hung in October? Santa Claus making appearances in November? Christmas music before Thanksgiving? Enough! I think we need…
Washington I noticed portents that this Christmas season would be different around Thanksgiving time. I noticed it when people unbidden…
WARNING: Mild Spoilers Rogue One, a novella of a movie wedged between the Episode III and IV of the Star…
