Posts Tagged ‘christmas’
Celebrating Christmas Eve at Local Chinese Church
By Carl L. Bankston III Yesterday evening my family and I celebrated Christmas Eve by visiting a local Chinese church on invitation of a Chinese friend. The activities began with a skit by the youth group, portraying contemporary young people faced with dilemmas in living up to the Ten Commandments. Three of the kids, dressed up as figures [...]
The Aromas of Christmas — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Christmas time is when I’m prone to catching colds, this year being no different. My work takes me out in the elements and this past week we’ve had our share of damp and soggy air; not complaining, after this year of drought we needed the rain. Monday the symptoms started to appear so we took steps to minimize [...]
Our Christmas Wish – The Gift of Gratitude
Jennifer Marshall, Heritage Foundation Gratitude, it’s been observed, is a hallmark conservative virtue. We prize the heritage passed down to us through the generations. We look beyond ourselves to the wisdom of the ages to shape our outlook and to the enduring principles of America’s founding to ground our decisions today. Gratitude [...]
Two Visions: The Nativity vs. the Occupiers
Paul G. Kengor, The Center for Vision and Values I recently strolled down Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh and was struck by two images. First, there was the stirring life-sized Nativity that each year is displayed on the property of the giant U.S. Steel building. It is an inspiring sight. As I walked along, however, my eyes were [...]
A Christmas Victory
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice If you’ve been reading our blog series on 2011 victories, you already know that this has been quite a year for the ACLJ. We’ve taken bold stands on the national and international stage – including representing more than 100 members of Congress in the ObamaCare litigation, weighing in at [...]
Christmas According to Marx and Lenin, by Ronald Reagan
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Between his campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1975-76 and his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan delivered more than 1,000 radio broadcasts, running about three minutes each, writing nearly all of them himself. In one broadcast during the Christmas season, Mr. Reagan told a story about Christmas in [...]
Christianity, Christmas, and the Grinch’s Unsuccesful War
By Jack Kerwick Contrary to what many on the political right would have us believe, there is no “War on Christmas.” If there is, it has to be the most poorly prosecuted war that there has ever been. Granted, the despisers of Christianity dwell among us. Yet it is a mistake to think that they compose a monolith. We can divide these [...]
US Capitol Christmas Tree Pays Homage to Obama—But Not Jesus
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com The 63-foot Sierra White Fir lighted at the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Dec. 6 as the official 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree includes a prominently displayed ornament paying homage to President Barack Obama, but includes no ornament readily visible to a person standing near the tree's base that uses [...]
The Meaning of Christmas
American Minute with Bill Federer Ronald Reagan stated in his Christmas Address, DECEMBER 20, 1983: Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations we forget the true meaning of Christmas...the birth of the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ... During this glorious festival let us renew our determination to follow His example. Franklin [...]
Christmas and Old Age
By Alan Caruba The older I get, the less I like Christmas. It’s definitely an age thing. I have sweet memories of waking early on Christmas day, tip-toeing passed my parent’s and older brother’s bedrooms, and down the stairs to see what bounty awaited in front of the fireplace. There were separate stockings, jammed with candies and [...]
North Korea Shows “Grinch-like” Christmas Spirit:
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel You might be a communist if…You ban poinsettias from a government school; You rename a Christmas tree a “holiday” tree in a state building…or You threaten your neighbors with unexpected consequences if they want to put up Christmas lights. North Korea has claimed that South Korea’s plan to place three [...]
Rhode Island Governor Wages War on Christmas
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel West Greenwich, RI – A Christian business owner has informed the Rhode Island Governor that he may take back the Christmas tree he donated to the State House for the annual Christmas tree lighting celebration. Gov. Lincoln Chafee proclaimed it must be referred to as a “holiday” tree. For the past five [...]
Walgreens Retracts Its Description of Christmas Decorations as “Holiday” Ones
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Just one day after coming under a firestorm for selling “holiday” gifts and providing “holiday” shipping for gifts to arrive by December 25th, Walgreens has worked to regain their “nice” status on Liberty Counsel’s “Naughty or Nice List” which catalogs more than 50 national retailers which [...]
CVS and Walgreens Switch Sides on “Naughty & Nice”
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Two competing drug store chains have switched sides on Liberty Counsel’s “Naughty and Nice List.” For the first time since 2007 CVS Pharmacy has embraced Christmas with a “Christmas Central” portion of its website that is dedicated to Christmas gifts, shipping and savings. On the other hand, Walgreens [...]
Cancer Center Reverses Decision to Ban Santa
Nativity Scene is Still “Left Out in the Cold” Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Liberty Counsel sent a letter to a cancer treatment center, demanding it extend its reversal of a decision to ban Santa Claus to now also allow Nativity scenes and other religious Christmas symbols. The Hollings Cancer Center, a state-funded institution in [...]
Military Support for Children’s Charity Not a Crisis
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice In response to the U.S. Air Force Academy issuing an apology for allowing cadets to promote a children’s charity, the ACLJ sent a letter to the Air Force Academy, on behalf of over 15,000 Americans, urging it to once again permit cadets to promote the children’s charity to fellow [...]
Air Force Shoots Down Christmas Charity
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The Air Force Academy has apologized for sending an email to cadets that read, “As the holidays approach, we have the opportunity to provide the joy of Christmas to impoverished Children around the world. . . . PLEASE, PLEASE CONSIDER SPENDING SOME OF YOUR VALUABLE TIME AND MONEY TO LOVE ON [...]
Liberty Counsel Launches the Ninth Annual “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign”
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Today Liberty Counsel is launching its ninth annual “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign,” pledging to be a “Friend” to those who recognize Christmas and a “Foe” to those who censor it. Liberty Counsel has helped overturn a number of grinch-like decisions, including nativity scenes which were banned [...]
Bill Clinton, And The Right to Express Your Religious Views
American Minute with Bill Federer A graduate of Georgetown University, he was a Fulbright Scholar before becoming Governor of Arkansas and then America's 42nd President. In 1998, he became the 2nd president to be impeached by the U.S. House, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. His birth name was William Jefferson Blythe IV, born [...]
ACLU Continues to Target Christmas
By Phyllis Schlafly The American Civil Liberties Union (known as the ACLU) continues to carry on its war against Christmas. The Tennessee branch of the ACLU sent a warning letter to 137 school superintendents in Tennessee warning them about having school Christmas celebrations. The letter suggested that celebrating Christmas while excluding [...]
Christmas According to Marx and Lenin, by Ronald Reagan
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Orlando, FL – Between his campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1975-76 and his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan delivered more than 1,000 radio broadcasts, running about three minutes each, writing nearly all of them himself. In one broadcast during the Christmas season, Mr. Reagan told a story [...]
Wishing You a Merry Christmas
By Phyllis Schlafly I hope nobody listening to this program is intimidated from wishing everyone you see a Merry Christmas. I don't want anybody to wish me a Merry Multicultural, Inclusive, Secular, Seasonal Holiday. The big majority of Americans are Christians who know Whose birthday is celebrated on Christmas. An estimated 96% of [...]
The Birth of Christ and the Birth of America are Linked
By Chuck Baldwin As we approach the celebration of Christ’s birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the [...]
IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME – CELEBRATE!
Perspectives with Phil Brennan We are about to celebrate a very special national holiday that evokes joyful memories of past Christmases and anticipation of the joys we will experience this December 25th. I say we, but tragically the we does not include a lot of very unhappy people who consider celebrating Christmas an affront to those who do [...]
No Better Time to Remember Christ and Rededicate Ourselves
A Way of Life, Thomas S. Monson Brothers and sisters, this joyful season brings to all of us a measure of happiness that corresponds to the degree to which we have turned our minds, feelings, and actions to the Savior, whose birth we celebrate. There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate [...]
Eyring: The Gift of a Savior
A Way of Life, Henry B. Eyring I am grateful for this opportunity to greet you as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The prophet Isaiah spoke of Him centuries before His birth: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, [...]
How to Ruin Christmas
By Alan Caruba Christmas has become an ideological battleground over the past decade or so, maybe longer. In the school where I graduated into the real world in 1955, we all happily sang Christmas carols together, Jew and Gentile alike, but that has long since been forbidden. Christmas is being deliberately ruined by a handful of morons in [...]
Seeing Christmas Through New Eyes
Prophet Statesmen, Dieter F. Uchtdorf If we look for what is wrong with the Christmas season, we can surely find it. Like the Grinch, we can grumble and complain, becoming cold and cynical about what we see around us. Nevertheless, if we look for the good, we can see this time of year with new eyes—perhaps even with the eyes of a child. The [...]
Tennessee ACLU Bullies Schools with Misleading Information on Christmas Celebrations
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Nashville, TN – Today Liberty Counsel sent a memo to school superintendents in Tennessee, setting the record straight on a prior letter sent from the state’s ACLU. The ACLU suggests that any Christmas concert, decoration, or party is a religious activity prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. The ACLU letter [...]
LC Launches Eighth Annual “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign”
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Orlando, FL – Today Liberty Counsel is launching its eighth annual “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign,” pledging to be a “Friend” to those who recognize Christmas and a “Foe” to those who censor it. Liberty Counsel has helped overturn a number of grinch-like decisions, including nativity scenes [...]
State Dept. Hinders Visa Security Program
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, the State Department is reportedly impeding a crucial program designed to prevent terrorists from obtaining visas to enter the United States. Legislation enacted after the 2001 terrorist attacks established the Visa Security Program [...]
Icebound: The Story of Shackleton’s Antarctic Voyage
by Dennis Behreandt Frank Worsley, his muscles tensed and his face etched in grim determination, tossed uncomfortably in his sleep. In his mind surreal images tormented him. Giant blocks of ice tinged with a primordial blue jostled and bucked their way down Burlington Street, which was, in the dream, weirdly flooded. The monstrous floes of [...]
Christmas In School Means Inclusiveness — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly In Waterbury, Connecticut, Walsh Elementary School had a “winter celebration” in December, but no religious or even secular symbols such as Santa Claus or Christmas trees were permitted. The principal banned Christmas parties in classrooms as well as Christmas decorations because he didn’t want to offend some students. [...]
The Twelve Days of Christmas: The History Behind the Tradition
American Minute with Bill Federer In 567 AD, the Council of Tours ended a dispute. Western Europe celebrated Christmas, December 25, and Eastern Europe celebrated Epiphany, JANUARY 6, recalling the Wise Men's visit and Jesus' baptism. The Council made all 12 days from December 25 to January 6 "holy days" or "holidays," thus the "Twelve Days of [...]
Tis the Season to be Bigoted — Phil Brennan
Perspectives With Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, most Americans recognized that Christmas is what we Christians call a feast day, and we celebrated it accordingly. In short, Christmas is the day we choose to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, and not merely the arrival of jolly old [...]
The Second Most Important Christmas — Schlafly
Liberty Letters, Phyllis Schlafly Americans today are searching for a leader, a good man who stands on principle and can lead us to adopt the right policies for our nation. Leadership requires many important qualities, and one we sometimes overlook is that a leader must be willing to take risks for the cause he believes in. I suggest that anyone [...]
What Dickens Scrooge Should Teach Us — Farrell
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell A cynical conservative magazine I used to subscribe to did the most irritating thing come every Christmas. They would go out of their way to destroy – no, annihilate – my family's and perhaps your family's favorite Christmas story, Charles Dickens' classic work, "A Christmas Carol." When Dickens' Scrooge [...]
More Than a Wise Teacher: The Divine Son — 4 U.S. Presidents Contemplate the Christ
American Minute with Bill Federer President Hoover wrote in 1932: "Your CHRISTMAS Service held each year at the foot of a living tree which was alive at the time of the birth of Christ ... should be continued as a further symbol of the unbroken chain of life leading back to this great moment in the spiritual life of mankind." President [...]
Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke Ah, Christmastime. Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude . . . and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire. Sadly, the last thing has become as much a seasonal expectation as the others, and the American Communist Lawyers Union’s practice of suing our culture into [...]
Christianity and Christmas — Columbus and Harry Truman
American Minute with Bill Federer On Christmas eve, DECEMBER 24, 1492, Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria, ran aground on the island of Haiti. Columbus left 40 men and named the settlement la Navidad, promising to return the next year. He wrote that day to Spain's King and Queen: In all the world there can be no better or gentler people. Your [...]
America's Christmas Wars — Caruba
By Alan Caruba It’s become the new Christmas tradition; a handful of people who demand that everyone else stop celebrating Christmas by displaying manger scenes in public places or stop singing Christmas carols in school, or stop saying “Merry Christmas.” (more...)
Presidential Christmas Sermons — Reagan and Roosevelt
American Minute with Bill Federer Ronald Reagan stated in his Christmas Address, DECEMBER 20, 1983: Sometimes, in the hustle and bustle of holiday preparations we forget the true meaning of Christmas ... the birth of the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ ... During this glorious festival let us renew our determination to follow His example. (more...)
Message From St. Nick: Give The Glory to God
American Minute with Bill Federer Greek Orthodox history tells of Nicholas being born to a wealthy, elderly couple in what is now Turkey in the year 280 AD. When his parents died, he generously gave to the poor. Upon hearing a merchant had gone bankrupt and that creditors were planning on taking the merchant's daughters, Nicholas threw some [...]
Longing for Home — Eyring
Prophet Statesmen, Volume I, No. 46, Eyring Excerpt from President Henry B. Eyring's, December 2009, First Presidency Message, "Home for Christmas." There was a song I heard first when I was a little boy—a song about Christmas and home. Those were days of war when many people were away from their homes and family—a dark time for those who [...]
Humanist Organization Tries to Undermine Christmas with its “Godless” Campaign
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – When most people are celebrating the Christmas spirit of joy and love, the American Humanist Association is playing the role of Scrooge by placing ads on buses in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The ads state “No God? … No Problem,” and feature an image of several people [...]
