Christmas traditions such as cantatas, plays, music and caroling are an important part of Christmas, just as important as decorating the Christmas tree, spending time with family and having Christmas ...

Christmas and Easter are both — to some extent — rebranded versions of existing pagan holidays. Easter has managed to retain a bit of its early pastoral simplicity. We still celebrate it with lilies ...

I am one of those people who doesn’t look at the holidays as a series of individual dates. From Thanksgiving to St. Nicholas Day to Christmas to New Year to Epiphany, each day is a bright light strung ...

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