Merry Christmas! With this special time of year comes an influx of mouthwatering meals, heartfelt gifts and feel-good, festive Christian music. And speaking of this seasonal music, we've put together ...

It’s not easy to preserve artefacts and architecture in tropical environments with strong multicultural and multifaith histories. But without them, we cannot tell the true story of Australia’s ...

The anticipatory lead-up to Christmas involves checking off shopping lists, stuffing stockings, and brainstorming recipes. However, for those in the Christian faith community, the holiness of the ...

How did decorated trees, cut-out cookies and stockings by the fireplace become Christmas symbols? Christmas symbols we all ...

It's a well-documented trend that religious adherence in the United States has declined in recent years. As Christmas, a time traditionally associated with the Christian faith, approaches how does ...

Christmas to the vast throngs is little more than a noisy excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For ...

This is an updated version of an article I wrote in 2014. Between now and Dec. 25, life seems to center around Christmas. An agnostic, let alone an atheist, can feel like an outsider. Some atheists ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — There are no ornaments on Sandy Husari Battikha’s Christmas tree. Only a small Nativity scene sits under its barren boughs. Battikha, a Palestinian Christian, said she didn’t have ...

Forget ugly sweater parties, this is our new national Christmas tradition: 1) a public venue creates a forum and invites everyone to erect displays; 2) Secular Humanists, Satanists, and other ...