Christmas Stories

Maybe it’s the undeniable appeal of Rudolph the Red-Nosed reindeer that makes him the most known or popular of all Santa’s nine flying reindeers. It certainly doesn’t seem as easy to come up with a similar catchy description for the others – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen – as named in [...]

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Along with peace and joy, Christmas is a time of giving and family togetherness. Many magnificent writers have written about the wonderful Christmas holiday season in works of poetic literature. They have written about the birth of Christ, Santa Claus, and many other themes. Christmas is a vast theme and, therefore, there is a vast [...]

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America Still Asks – What Child is This? by Rev Michael Bresciani No, the term “Christmas” is not found in the Bible and Christs birth was certainly nowhere near December 25. As for celebrating his birthday at anytime, Christ never asked or even remotely intimated that we should. In fact birthdays were almost never celebrated [...]

“A Christmas Carol” is the story of a man named Ebeneezer Scrooge, who was a lonely old miser with more money than he knew what to do with – primarily because he refused to spend or share a single penny of it. Throughout the course of the story, after visits from three spirits, Scrooge realizes [...]

A Christmas Carol, or originally known as A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, is a Victorian morality novel written by author Charles Dickens and published in the December of 1843 by Chapman and Hall of the United Kingdom. It quickly became the most popular book of the holiday season that [...]