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Most of the selections in this short poetry collection are classics, some of which have been immortalized as Christmas carols. There's Martin Luther's "Away in a Manger," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ...

These Christmas prayers and blessings focus on the meaning of the holiday. The Christmas season is, at its core, a celebration of life, and as the cookie swaps, holiday shopping, and general fanfare ...

I spent a week during last Christmas in the oncology ward of a sprawling university hospital in the Midwest. The staff did their best to make the institution festive. There were decorated trees and ...

“We think of him as safe beneath the steeple,” writes poet and Anglican priest Malcolm Guite, “But he is with a million displaced people/ On the long road of weariness and want./ … His family is up ...

For those who have lost a loved one, the holiday season can often be bittersweet. When his mother died in 1989, John “Jay” Mooney wanted to help his family cope with the loss. So on a cold October ...