I Always Knew Santa Was Make-Believe: A Retired Pastor on Losing Her Faith
I always knew Santa was make-believe. My parents taught me Jesus was the reason for…
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For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising
‘Tis the season for Christian supersessionism.
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Praying With Eyes Open: Christmas is a Big Deal for Liberal Christians Too
Liberals like me can’t really bring ourselves to believe that Christ will be coming again in glory. This means we have to settle with what we’ve got: a man who showed us what God is like in the brief span of a still-obscure life long ago.
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Festivus, Atheist Santa, and the Invention of Blasphemy
A Q&A with S. Brent Plate
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What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?
Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there…
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Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’
In the 1640s, during the years of the English civil wars, a popular broadsheet with…
Read MoreTrendwatch: Thieves Taking the Christ out of Christmas. Literally.
The war on Christmas, it’s been well documented, is not a real thing. Though there…
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Netherlands’ “War on Xmas” is “War on ‘Black Pete’”
In November, while governor Jay Nixon declared the controversy in Ferguson to be a state…
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Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy
Thanksgivukkah is a way of being out, loud, and proud—We’re here! We’re Jewish! We eat turkey AND latkes!—but can Jews ever compete with the juggernaut of Christmas?
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The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!
What do Pope Benedict XVI and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have in common? They both have a thing for Krampus.
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