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When is Christmas? Here’s what day of the week it falls on in 2022
TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen is Christmas this year? Find out what day Christmas is this year, plus fun facts about the...
Do we have to argue about keeping Christ in Christmas? | GARY COSBY JR.
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHere is a real shocker for most of us Christians. The “X” in Christmas isn’t actually disrespectful,...
The Curious Past and Lasting Importance of Yule
Nerdist via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“Yule” is an oft-used word during this festive season. The classic Christmas tune “Deck the Halls” gushes about “yuletide carols.” YouTube Yule logs...
What It Was Like To Eat At The First Christmas Feast
Mashed via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe first Christmas dinners most likely had nothing to do with the birth of Jesus, but were feasts held by pre-Christian Romans during their December...
Is there connection between Hanukah and Christmas?
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLet me clear this up from the start: Christmas is not the Christian Hanukah, but there is a kind of connection. Both are connected to the Winter Solstice...
With war raging in Gaza, Christmas is effectively canceled in Bethlehem
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoChurch bells echo through the labyrinth-like streets of Bethlehem. With Christmas approaching, the...
Today is: St. Nicholas Day
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSt. Nicholas Day celebrates St. Nicholas, a popular minor Christian saint in Western and Eastern churches. In the fourth century, he was a bishop in...
Reason for the season: Why is Christmas on Dec. 25?
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTime to lay a popular myth to rest. You know it. It goes like this: Those naughty Christians co-opted the pagan holiday Saturnalia, commemorated in winter among the Romans, and bent it to their ...
Gary Brown: An Easter 'unlike any other'
The Repository via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA theological question that has followed me through seven decades of celebrating Easter is how the heck a bunny with a basket ever got associated with a...
Was Santa Actually a Badass Who Beat Up a Priest?
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty and Wikimedia CommonsThis last week marked the celebration of the Saint’s Day of Nicholas of...
