COMMENTARY: The first witnesses to the messianic birth are not the great and the good but the lowly shepherds.

When I was a boy growing up in Ballwin, Missouri, one of my family’s Advent and Christmas traditions was to decorate our house by placing artificial candles in all of the windows, giving our home a ...

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Taken from "52 Little Lessons from A Christmas Carol" by Bob Welch. How do we learn life lessons from a crotchety old miser so unpleasant that dogs run ...

In the six-hour PBS documentary “The Power of Myth,” Joseph Campbell explains that myths offer clues to our spiritual nature, and guide us to a sacred place where we can unlock a deeper unconscious ...

When Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, he likely had no idea it would be a Christmas staple nearly two centuries later. Some might see the book as only a tale about a bitter ...

Sometimes your favorite stories are told more than once. Such is the case during this holiday season when I remember a Christmas Eve long ago when I was taught an important lesson. I was a curious ...

Advent Episcopal School celebrates Christmas with this mix of lessons and carols. The service of Lessons and Carols has been a Christmas season tradition at Advent Episcopal School in Birmingham for ...

Well, it may not perfectly fit the tune, but it does perfectly fit the season. And it was all cooked by one family and a few friends to feed D.C.’s less fortunate. About a dozen years ago, D.C.-based ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sophia A. Nelson covers EIQ, Culture, DEI, Politics, & Lifestyle. Meghan Markle’s new Netflix Christmas special opens quietly—not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeff Ewing is a film critic, filmmaker, and screenwriter in LA. All that said, a common element of Christmas classics is a moral ...

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols fills King’s College Chapel at Cambridge University every year on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. The service is broadcast by the BBC and heard, according to ...