Christmas category: 982 books
Five Questions of Christmas
Unlocking the Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Christmas story is well-known. We know the decorations, the family parties, the carols, the manger scene, even the familiar Scripture passages. But have you ever considered the questions of Christmas?
Five questions spiral throughout the ancient stories surrounding Christ’s birth. These...
The Joys of Christmas
A Glossary of Terms and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The Joys of Christmas" is a story of all stories, yet it doesn't present itself in story form. Rather, it's like a small encyclopedia, designed to help its readers truly understand and embrace the joyful celebration of Christmas. "The Joys of Christmas" is a book which, while easy to read, conveys a...
by Clement A. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Christmas In Ritual And Tradition
by Clement A. Miles
This is a study of the origin of modern Christmas in ancient pagan traditions, how the festival was adopted by Christianity, and its evolution through history. Miles includes descriptions of folk-lore related to the Christmas season from...
by Sarah Price
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Elsie Smucker is facing her first Christmas alone. Her last remaining sibling has just passed away. When she dreams of her brother, she never imagines that she will be visited by the "ghost" of the past, present, and future. But the visions change her life and make for a wonderful Christmas...
Secret Santa
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
It's Christmas, and Indianapolis Sentinel reporter Rebecca Chandler has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Tired of covering the usual seasonal fluff -- and in no mood for warmth and sincerity -- she reluctantly accepts her editor's assignment to travel to nearby Hamden and cover the story of Secret...
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Jaime and C. J. Fitzpatrick began their married life as most couples do--in love and looking forward to a bright future together. But four years later they've drifted apart and are almost ready to call it quits.
Mattie Riehl was hoping to give her husband Sol the Christmas gift they have both...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer
Stories about the Love, Inspiration, and Joy of Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer will warm readers’ hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love and joy. A fantastic holiday gift for the young and young at heart.
Everyone loves Christmas and the holiday season. We reunite scattered family members,...
12 Days of Christmas Prayer
Scripture and Stories to Celebrate the Season
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Ring in this joyous season with a lovely selection of uplifting holiday stories and prayers. 12 Days of Christmas Prayer offers reflections on how the Christmas spirit brightens our lives during this merry time. Whether it is the unique style of gift exchange that brings a family closer together or...
C Is for Christmas
The History, Personalities, and Meaning of Christ's Birth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Throughout the centuries, so many traditions have woven themselves into the celebration of Christmas that it's difficult to understand just what the season of Christ's birth is all about. Now beloved writer Warren W. Wiersbe and his son, fellow pastor David W. Wiersbe give adults their very own A...
God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers
A True Civil War Christmas Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In the tradition of the bestselling Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce, the true story of a Civil War Christmas miracle
In the waning days of 1862, Union and Confederate troops set up camp within earshot of one another in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Christmas had just...
by Sophie Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Medieval Christmas—roaring fires, Yule logs, boar’s head on a platter, and carols. So many of our best-loved traditions have their origins in the medieval period that it would be impossible to imagine the season without holly and ivy, carol singers calling from door to door, and a general sense...
Celebrating Christmas
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
"What we call Christmas is one of the oldest and most enduring of the human celebrations." So begins the Preface of this perennially popular volume which includes hundreds of seasonal selections from Unitarian Universalists over the years, plus a bibliography of resources beyond denominational...
Loving My Actual Christmas
An Experiment in Relishing the Season
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The Christmas season is a particularly difficult time for women to slow down and relish what's right in front of them. An annual marker for many, it is a holiday that can often remind us how life is not going as we'd planned. Our family relationships remain strained, our finances stretched, and our...
What Do You Want for Christmas?
An Advent Study for Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
“What do you want for Christmas?” It’s a question that gets asked often as the holiday season approaches and Christmas draws near. And if we’re honest, much of the time when we think about how we would answer that question, we have material things on our mind.
Author James W. Moore...