If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” ...

When I tell my friends that in the German style, we don't decorate our Christmas tree until Dec. 24, they pity me a bit. "What's the point?" one of them asked, assuming that this custom indicated a ...

If people wish you a “serendipitous solstice” or the like tomorrow, it’s because they’re godless Earth-worshiping pagan soldiers of the War Against Christmas. Or so I gather from reading various right ...

When you gather around the Christmas tree or stuff goodies into a stocking, you're taking part in traditions that stretch back thousands of years — long before Christianity entered the mix. Pagan, or ...

Christmas is America's No. 1 favorite holiday—90% of us celebrate it. But what is Christmas, exactly, and how did it become ...

You know the bumper sticker, of course. Around 350 A.D., you might have seen it on any passing chariot. Or plastered on the back of an ox cart. And if it wasn't, it should have been. Time to take a ...