When Christmas Came Back to Bethlehem: Hope Rising From the Rubble
The City That Invented Christmas Bethlehem is a small city with an impossibly large legacy. This is where it all...
Religious Traditions
Three Wise Men? The Christmas Lie We’ve Been Telling for 2,000 Years
The Nativity Scene in Your Living Room Is Wrong Every December, they appear. On mantels, in church lobbies, under Christmas...
Was the Star of Bethlehem Real? When Astronomy Meets the Christmas Story
The Christmas Question Nobody Can Answer Every December, nativity scenes appear featuring three wise men (we'll get to that number...
When the White House Confused Mary with Jesus: A Theological Faceplant for the Ages
The Tweet That Launched a Thousand Corrections The White House social media team thought they were being respectful. Maybe even...
The Time England Literally Canceled Christmas (And People Lost Their Minds)
When Puritans Ruined the Holidays Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your government has officially banned Christmas. Not...
The Christmas Conspiracy Nobody Tells You About: When Santa Claus Was Actually Two Different Dudes Fighting for Your Soul
The Lie We All Believed You think you know Santa Claus. Fat guy, red suit, lives at the North Pole,...
When Your Chocolate Countdown Became a Holy War: The Great Advent Calendar Debate
The $200 Beauty Calendar That Started It All Somewhere along the way, Advent calendars stopped being about Jesus and started...
