By December 1944, the U.S. Army’s 29th Division as part of the Ninth Army was situated on the west bank of Germany’s Roer River holding the battlefront from Koslar to Kirchberg across from Julich. During the previous six months, the…

For the first time in the nation’s history, many American Christians celebrate Christmas in a land where the welcome mat for the holiday, and perhaps especially for the nativity scenes that recall the birth of the Christ child, has been…

We Christians are joyful people. We are surrounded by an imperfect world. Which is why we turn to humor. A humorous look at things helps us to put what we see in perspective. But we are not just cheerful, we…

The most extraordinary letter received here in 2021 (or perhaps in the last five years) was a response to an email of mine on colleges’ appointing atheist chaplains. The letter (edited to protect the writer) went as follows: The appointment…

Charles Dickens’s landmark publication A Christmas Carol (1843), the story of  Ebenezer Scrooge the miserly misanthrope who is transformed by a Christmas Eve visit from three ghosts who show him how his past actions have led to his present spiritual…

“Now,” grinned the Grinch, with an evil smile. “I will stuff up the tree.” That is, until he heard the coo of sweet little Cindy-Lou Who. “Santy Claus, why?” she asked. “Why are you taking our Christmas tree? Why?” The…

Proof of God’s existence, and sense of humor, arrived as a present 30 Christmases ago in the form of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Should we all pretend to ignore that the first state explicitly founded on atheism died…

“Merry Christmas From the Competent Biden Team,” editorial cartoon by Yogi Love for The American Spectator, December 23, 2021.

It’s Christmas in America, and we just got our present. Although West Virginia is coal country, its Democratic U.S. senator, Joe Manchin, actually blocked the monstrous sack full that Biden and the Democrats planned to dump on us this Christmas….