Dan Wooldridge explores how the first ones who chronicled the life of Jesus provided a model for communicating in diverse global cultures and emerging generation.

Dan Wooldridge notes that the romanticized and consumerized modern views of Christmas obscure the raw reality of the first Christmas. But in that reality there is true hope.

The flat world phenomena are not altogether new. Dan Wooldridge shows how the Roman Empire created a flat world and set the stage the first Christmas.

Dan Wooldridge shows how we can reflect more deeply on the characters in the Biblical Christmas story and come to a greater awe and wonder of the birth and life of Christ.

Bradley J. Moore has taken about all the generic Christmas greetings he can stand. And that's that.

On December 23 — the traditional day on which Festivus is celebrated — Bradley J. Moore began an airing of grievances about the annual Christmas letter from an as yet unnamed family, which he now picks up anew.

Dan Wooldridge has been thinking about the way we "do Christmas" in this part of the world and the dissatisfaction fueled by this world of choices, choices, and more choices.

So here is my year-end anti-self-promoting Generic Holiday Newsletter. It’s chock-full of disappointments, bad news, and frightening developments. I ended up sending it to a handful of cynical friends like me; people I knew would appreciate it.

This is the season when families, friends and businesses exchange Holiday Greetings. Whether we are wishing a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza Greetings or just Best Wishes in the New Year, people in the West have a long tradition of greeting cards

Dan Wooldridge came across the most fabulously "legalese" holiday wish making it's way around the Internet.

Jesus came to know from experience "the problems of making a living, the haunting insecurity of the life of the working man, the ill-natured customer, the man who would not pay his debts...." William Barclay on why the Jesus of the biblical narratives is so compelling.