It’s only about a week until Christmas, and, by now, you’ve probably exhausted the run of typical holiday specials. We all love Charlie Brown and Vince Guaraldi’s instantly familiar piano tunes, but ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Every December, Americans go searching for joy. We chase it through crowded stores, pack it into our calendars and hope the season will somehow lift the heaviness we’ve carried all year long. But for ...

Andrew Crome does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

I love the holiday season, especially all the best Christmas movies that I sit around and watch with my family. Among the ones I love are the Rankin and Bass claymation movies that are so delightfully ...

Palestinian Christians are reviving their seasonal public celebrations, hoping to bring light and holiday spirit at the end of a gloomy year in the West Bank. By Fatima AbdulKarim Reporting from ...

Every year, idiosyncratic sitcom-lovers everywhere gather around the TV with a mug of hot cocoa and watch the best-ever seasonal episodes of– oh, wait, Britta’s in this? For a show that spent its ...

Via Arboleda stepped back to admire the six-foot tree glittering in her living room. Though the narra trees along Manila’s sidewalks had yet to shed their leaves, she was among many Filipinos already ...

Christmas celebrations span the globe. According to a 2025 report from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, there are roughly 2.6 billion Christians ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Like Santa coming down the chimney, the nonprofit, Be the Miracle, will bring Christmas morning joy to hundreds of children across Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. Daphne ...