Personality Test: Which Christmas Movie Are You?
9-Year-Old Unboxes Her Marine Brother in Emotional Holiday Surprise
Her reaction said it all. Welcome home, soldier!
Sounds of the Season: 5 Great Songs Preserving Christmas Tradition
Christmas music is inextricably tied to the holiday season, and in this episode, I perform five traditional songs, some secular and some spiritual, that are intertwined with Christmas traditions and even have historical significance. Hosted by the two-time Emmy-nominated actor and singer-songwriter Beau Davidson, The Beau Show addresses issues affecting everyone and invites conversation and…
SpaceX Launches Christmas Presents, Supplies to Station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched Christmas gifts, goodies, and supplies to the International Space Station on Tuesday and got a present in return: the company’s 100th successful rocket landing. The predawn liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was barely visible in the fog and clouds, as the Falcon rocket hoisted a Dragon capsule loaded with more…
How Inflation Is Squeezing Working American Families at Christmas
Commentary BROWNSVILLE, Pennsylvania—Just before 10 a.m., cars begin pulling into the parking lot of the Country Thrift Market, a sprawling former grocery store 40 miles from Pittsburgh. Normally, folks in the area shop for gently used clothing, toys, and deeply discounted home goods here. But today is different because Santa Claus is on site along…
An ‘I Love Lucy’ Christmas
Growing up in the 1960s, my favorite show was “I Love Lucy.” It made me laugh to see how Lucy was always getting herself and her husband, Ricky, into predicaments. Periodically and unfortunately, I can relate. A while back, my parents left their home of 51 years to live in an independent senior apartment building….
Reindeer Rentals Bring Christmas Vibes to the Sun Belt
MACON, Georgia—Twas six nights before Christmas and just like always, it was the same three questions over and over for Scott Allen, as he monitored the two reindeer he brought to a downtown Christmas light extravaganza. “Where’s Rudolph?” children and adults asked, eyes sparkling with enchantment as they watch his mother-daughter duo placidly munching hay,…
Reindeer Rental Helps Party Hosts ‘Sleigh’ Christmas Vibe
MACON, Georgia—Twas six nights before Christmas and just like always, it was the same three questions over and over for Scott Allen, as he monitored the two reindeer he brought to a downtown Christmas light extravaganza. “Where’s Rudolph?” children and adults asked, eyes sparkling with enchantment as they watch his mother-daughter duo placidly munching hay,…
A New York Schoolgirl’s Christmas Wish: ‘Ask the Chinese Government to Release My Parents’
A 16-year-old Chinese girl, who is studying music in New York, hopes her one simple Christmas wish could be granted: the unconditional release of her parents who are detained in China for practicing Falun Gong. It has been more than a year since Grace Chen Fayuan, a talented erhu player, heard any news of what…
Christmas and the Myth of the Neutral State
Commentary Can Christians celebrate Christmas publicly, in traditional ways—exchanges of official, personal, and business greetings, specially decorated trees, carols, school plays, Nativity scenes, public broadcasts such as the Queen’s Speech in the UK and Commonwealth—without offending unbelievers? The question comes up every year as the scope of acceptable public recognition of Christmas narrows and some…
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