Christmas Means Hope
The late Senator John McCain spent 5 and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in the 1960s. During that time, he was frequently tortured or held…
The late Senator John McCain spent 5 and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in the 1960s. During that time, he was frequently tortured or held…
On Christmas Day a small manger scene sat on a table just inside the doorway to a neatly kept home. People hurried past it all day. They barely noticed the…
Blessed are they who find Christmas in the age-old story of a babe born in Bethlehem. To them a little child will always mean hope and promise to a troubled…
One year during the Christmas season, Charles Schultz put into his Peanuts’ cartoon one of those common exchanges between children that has deep and uncommon meaning. Sally asks Charlie Brown,…
Oh, you say, had I been there at Bethlehem that night I would have seen. I would have understood. I would have known it was the Christ-Child. Would you? There…
African American poet Langston Hughes questioned in one of his poems, "What happens to a dream deferred?…Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?…Or does it explode?" Dreams…
According to a folklore, in 1670, in Cologne, Germany, the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral, wishing to remedy the noise caused by children in his church during the Living Crèche…
After she did her dance for King Herod, Salome asked for the head of John the Baptist on a platter because her mother, Herodias, who was married to Herod, hated…
Millions of Christians have been inspired by the life and death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian who was killed during World War II.Bonhoeffer was as outspoken concerning…