Miss Manners would bury her head in shame! Miss Manners would hang her head in shame at the regrettable hospitality and gift-giving that appear in the Christmas story. Joseph returns to his old hometown. What takes him there is no pleasure jaunt, but a government census designed to increase income from taxation. No doubt this…

The Christiams Story according to St. Luke has to be one of the most familiar of all of the stories in the Bible. Our earliest memories of it may be visualized in the pageant, children in bath robes with towels on their heads… animals… sometimes made of cardboard… sometimes real children in costumes and makeup……

What do you do when you love someone? Whether it’s a couple falling in love, a mother to a child, a friend to a friend, a husband to a wife… you want to communicate your love. And so you say, “I love you.” Sometimes you make a phone call to the beloved in the middle…

Mary gave birth to her first son, wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger – there was no place for them to stay in the inn. Luke 2:7 In the movie The Christmas Box, a woman asked her handyman a question, “What is the first gift of Christmas?” Now, you need to…