Tag: Christmas
To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate the...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
Traditionally, for Christian-Jewish families – or at least in writing about them –...
What’s the point of holiday gifts?
Dimitris Xygalatas, University of Connecticut
Whether it’s the dread of a trip to an overcrowded shopping mall, the challenge...
The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a...
How Christmas became an American holiday tradition, with a Santa Claus,...
Thomas Adam, University of Arkansas
Each season, the celebration of Christmas has religious leaders and conservatives publicly complaining about...
Three things that could help save Christmas 2021 from shortages
Jas Kalra, Newcastle University and Jens Roehrich, University of Bath
When problems with food...
How the crisis in container ships could ruin Christmas
Stavros Karamperidis, University of Plymouth
Ningbo-Zhousan may not exactly be a household name, but...
How holiday cards help us cope with a not-so-merry year, according...
Matthew McMahan, Emerson College
The first Christmas card was, perhaps predictably, one of good cheer. The concept is commonly credited to Sir Henry Cole, the...
Was Jesus really born in Bethlehem? Why the Gospels disagree over...
Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III, Fuller Theological Seminary
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
