The Washington Post columnist is battling cancer, but he will not despair. Here is a taste of Michael Gerson‘s Christmas column: …from a young age, if we are lucky, we are taught that hope itself sustains. It is one of […]
Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Current!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Current. Thank you for reading, following, and supporting us this year and engaging our efforts to reflect on some of life’s most important questions!
Tom Nichols: All Christmas specials are terrible except…
Here is Nichols at The Atlantic: Let’s begin with the granddaddy of them all, the stop-motion puppet show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Produced by the team of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass in 1964, Rudolph became an industry, spawning toys and collectibles and […]
Why is Christmas on December 25th?
Messiah University history graduate and historian of early Christianity Andrew Henry explains at his web show “Religion for Breakfast“:
From the archives: “Was There a Golden Age of Christmas in America?”
This piece first appeared in the Pacific Standard (now defunct) on December 11, 2011 —JF The so-called “War on Christmas” has reared its ugly head again. Conservative Christians—most of them evangelicals—have hit the airwaves and lecture circuits to warn their […]
Kentucky congressman asks Santa to bring him more ammo
As you can see from his family Christmas photo above, Kentucky representative Thomas Massie is celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace. Some of you may remember Rep. Thomas Massie from this video:
‘Tis the Season!
Messiah University may no longer have a history department, but our history majors are doing their best to hold on to the department’s time-honored traditions. This weekend the History Club did some Christmas caroling at faculty homes (History and Politics […]