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12/23/2021

The Christmas Shake

Two unheralded Otis Redding Christmas songs tap into the soulfulness of Christmas

by Colin Fleming

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12/24/2020

(S)elf-Paved

Reading Seabury Quinn's Roads

by Colin Fleming

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12/11/2015

Branching Out

The story of the Christmas tree is one of resistance, breakthrough, and change.

by Bernd Brunner

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12/07/2015

A Keatsian Christmas

How a Yuletide letter changed a poet, and how it can change you, too.

by Colin Fleming

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12/05/2014

"He’s Nothin’ Without His Chompers!"

On 50 years of Rankin and Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

by Colin Fleming

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12/16/2013

Visits from Christmas Past

When we think about Christmas in conjunction with the life of Christ we remember exactly how painful this time of year can be.

by Morgan Meis

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12/13/2013

Here is My Hand

Another side of Dickens and Christmas, courtesy of “The Signal-Man”

by Colin Fleming

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01/05/2012

Are You There, God?

Religious deception

by Jessa Crispin

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12/09/2010

Many Happy Returns

The complexity of the "return."

by Greg Beato

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12/09/2010

Ho, Ho, Hmmmmm

Advice and insight from a professional poet.

by Kristen Hoggatt

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