We celebrate Christmas "because God gave us the gift of His son to show us the way toward salvation," says Lauren Green in the new book All American Christmas by Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy. It ...

What is the meaning of Christmas? Celebrating the birth of Jesus? Exchanging presents? Feasting with family and friends? Enjoying the festive atmosphere? Decorating and baking? Performing acts of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Dikushin Dmitry / Shutterstock. What really defines Christmas? Is it Santa? The big family meal? Festivities and ...

In reference to the op-ed on the commercialization of Santa Claus and how many people didn’t know his history (“How Santa can become less commercialized,” Dec. 7), let’s take this one step further to ...

It’s not difficult to understand the literal meaning of Christmas. We know it is all about celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus, a time to honor the Christian savior. But the true meaning of ...

For Christmas this newspaper reached out to faith groups across Butte County asking two questions: 1. What is the meaning of Christmas? 2. What message — especially in light of wars and recent ...

When you think of Christmas, what comes to mind? Chances are good it's probably Santa Claus, ho-ho-ho-ing his way down the chimney to deliver gifts, or decorating the tree with loved ones while ...

Be it in the historical sense, the spiritual sense, the giving sense, the uniting sense, or the purely joyful sense, Christmas and all that it has meant to billions of men, women, and especially ...

My first real memory of Christmas was when I was 5 years old. I had gotten a cheap little plastic Nativity scene with a tiny Baby Jesus which truly mesmerized me ...

The opulence of the pre-Christmas scene would have made Santa blush. Filling the giant hall were multiple Christmas trees, miles of twinkling lights and stacks of presents that, if they didn't quite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This song refers to a real 12-day celebration and may have a hidden code. However, the actual "twelve days of Christmas" refer to ...