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January 2014

January 06, 2014

Is Apple’s 12 Days of Gifts Blurring Our Vision of Epiphany?

Apple's holiday promotion provides Christians with a unique opportunity to consider how the blending of...

January 01, 2014

New Year’s Resolutions as an “Expectation of Faith”

"While biological, historical, political, and social regularities exist -- these are not mere figments of...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Why You Should Lay Off the “Santa Claus is Real” Stuff (Because He’s Not)

The Santa myth is awkwardly forced into intersecting with the "real" world in ways that...

December 19, 2013

God and Country Music: 5 Christmas Country Songs That Aren’t Awful

As much as I love Country music—even the bad stuff—when Christmas comes around, Country music...

December 19, 2013

Have You Misunderstood Apple’s New Holiday Commercial?

Let's not fall into the trap of believing that the moment technology is involved, we...

December 16, 2013

Christmas Can Make It Hard to Remember That ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

"It surprises me how often I need to be reminded that Christmas should be a...

December 11, 2013

I Want to Give You a Snopes Detector for Christmas

I have a gift. It isn't really a supernatural gift so much as a talent...

December 10, 2013

Page CXVI’s Christmas Album Helped Me Channel the Spirit of Advent

"Latifah Philips' passionately subdued vocals for "O Come" in particular embody Israel's passionate longing—that desire...

December 03, 2013

Is the virgin birth impossible? "Yes," says science.

December 24, 2012

I am George Bailey: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and Obsession With Personal Achievement

I am George Bailey. Well, at least that's what my wife tells me whenever...

December 18, 2012

Christmas in Sandy Hook, Connecticut

I have a son who is eight years old, and my daughter will be five...

December 17, 2012

The Deeper Meaning Behind Our Favorite Christmas Carols

Christ and Pop Culture writers share their reflections on their favorite Christmas carols, and how,...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: The Nutcracker, Inside Out

"... I too had been swept into the magic of Nutcracker’s world, my daughter’s world,...

November 13, 2012

Sufjan Stevens breathes some fresh air into Christmas music with “Silver & Gold”

"By turns silly and serious, reverent and irreverent, traditional and experimental, Sufjan's Christmas music handily...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

The Kiddy Pool: Christmas in July

"Christmas in July assures me that Emmanuel is a year-round gift that transcends liturgy and...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Mommy, Daddy, Who is Santa Claus?

Five parents share their approach to the famous gift-giver.

December 09, 2008

Sacred Christmas without Christ

If you've listened to our recent podcasts, you know about my frustration with the synthesis...

December 14, 2007

God-Clause: Reflections on Santa and Theology Proper

He is the all-seeing, all-knowing, omnipresent being, who rewards the good and punishes the bad....

December 10, 2007

"Silent Night" is Not Enough

Christmas is more than likely the most diluted American holiday. Some see it as a...

November 2007

November 28, 2007

Top Five Christmas Movies

Here's my top five Christmas Movies: 1) A Christmas Story 2) Dr. Seuss's How the...

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