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 ...

One of the most memorable and meaningful Christmas Eve’s for me was the year I was abandoned at the public library. It was Monday, December 24, 1979. I was seven. The Baldwin Public Library is in the ...

The Christmas season is here. For many people it’s a joyous time, though hectic and exhausting. For others, the holiday is an overwhelming emotional confrontation with isolation and hopelessness.

Ah, the holidays are upon us. So special…so many memories. Gosh, I’ve written so many Christmas columns over the years I sometimes worry that I’ll run out of ideas or unintentionally repeat something ...

Christmas miracles come when you least expect them! This week started out like any other in our office. It’s approaching year end, we have less than 100 days until the annual campaign closes, we have ...

Christmas miracles come in all sizes and are delivered in such vastly different ways. Each year at this time, despite our best strategizing, predicting and planning we seem to always be joyously ...

"That's lovely," Mom said. "What is it?" my sister asked. I said, "I don't think it's a Barbie.” Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "I think it's part of a ...

It all started with a bedridden 10-year-old boy in Denver at Christmas. The year was 1914. David Jonathan Sturgeon was ailing, confined to his second-floor bed and unable to make it downstairs to ...

The Northeast was blanketed with snow last weekend, and I loved it — because I love how snow humbles us. When it snows in my hometown of Pittsburgh, people pour out into the streets. We shovel ...