Wednesday marks a rare holiday occurrence — when Hanukkah begins at sundown on Christmas night. It's just the fifth time in the last 114 years that both holidays are taking place on the same day, and ...

Should you take down your Christmas tree today? Here's why it's good luck to do so, and more about Epiphany, Three Kings and ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – While Christmas has become a very commercialized holiday, the holiday is religious in origin, and has a very significant meaning to many Christians. Christmas is a time of ...

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central message, but have trouble communicating it. Like the secularists, they try to ...

This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something almost unheard of in American pop culture, both then and now. In the middle of ...

Thursday is Christmas Day, one of the two most important days of the year (Easter is the other). We celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ on this day and rightfully so. Burl Ives sang, “Holly, ...

A blanket of white covers the ground here in the EUP. The nights are cold. The days are short. The sun might appear for a few hours, or it might remain hidden behind snow clouds, but one thing is ...

With every passing week, our nation and the world seem to be slipping deeper and deeper into a spirit crushing abyss. Be it wars, atrocities, spiraling crime, crumbing cities, inflation, partisan ...

My dad was straightforward, unburdened by the complexities of grace and refinement. He was a bona fide tough man. I can recall seeing him cry only twice: once when his mother died and once when I told ...

Commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ through ancient traditions, fasting, prayer, and midnight liturgies, rooted in the ...

This yuletide editorial, titled "The Significance of Christmas," appeared on the front page of the Anaconda Standard on Dec. 25, 1908, and was compiled by Tracy Thornton of The Montana Standard. The ...