For Christians, Easter is the most sacred day of the year. As the commemoration of the day Jesus rose from the dead, it celebrates our victory over sin and the grave and the new life we have in Him. Surprisingly enough, however, there is considerable controversy, even among some Christians, about whether Easter even qualifies as a Christian holiday, since it originated in a pagan spring celebration. Let’s look at this claim in more detail.
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I have been a Tolkien fan since I first read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in 1976 just before heading to college. I reread them every break for the next few years and bought every book by or about Tolkien I could find, including The Silmarillion when it first...
In the previous post, I looked at two Advent and Christmas traditions with roots in the Middle Ages, crèches and caroling. There are others, of course, but most of them involve decorations: holly, mistletoe, wreaths, and Christmas trees. All of these also connect us...
When I got the news about the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris back in 2019, I felt much the same way I did on 9/11. I lived for a time in Paris, and I have lots of good memories of the cathedral. And besides, as a historian, I place a great deal of value on...
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