This Christmas, many children welcomed a familiar visitor – a jolly man in a red suit and a sleigh full of gifts. But the ...

On the night of Dec. 21, under the archway of the historic Santa Barbara County Courthouse, we gathered for the 13th annual Longest Night candlelight ...

The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a special place among Christmas traditions, right alongside hot chocolate, caroling and ...

As the holiday season is in full swing, the stories, legends, history, facts, and trivia surrounding this time of year begin ...

69. Cullen — An Irish surname meaning "holly tree," this name gained popularity as a given name thanks to the family of ...

A Visit from St. Nicholas' is one of America's most beloved poems. But few can have read it carefully. If they had, our idea ...

The peace that God gives us isn’t just an inner calm – it has a healing effect.

Clearly, T. S. Eliot is the most influential poet writing in English in our time. There is probably no living writer about whose work there has grown up such a body of critical commentary. So great ...

I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...

and blessed are those who listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it, for the appointed time is near.” “Praise Song for the Day” is a poem written by Elizabeth Alexander and ...