We love Christmas carols because they carry us back to childhood, when things seemed simpler and happier. Some waft us ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

There are many different aspects of Christmas that make the season wonderful: family, food, gifts, parties, decorations et al. But the most special part of the Yuletide, the true meaning of the period ...

“The most famous of these, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You, remains the best-selling Christmas record of the ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

Discover the significance of Christmas carols in Black churches, blending theology, emotion, and cultural texture. Explore the contributions of Black composers and arrangers.

Happy Christmas in advance, dear readers. For someone trapped in the English language as I was in my formative years, the Bible contained wonderful calls to fai ...

The pop-culture hallmarks of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” are ghosts, a boy on crutches and a mean old man. And while those are all central elements of the story, most people forget that the ...