Category: Holiday Season

Here at TTC, we often talk about Christmas music and gifts around the holidays. This year, I would like to provide a list of films that I believe

This Christmas, I’ve decided to buy as many gifts as I can from companies that give back either by providing a fair wage and employment to those who

A life-long Baptist, I’ve had to be self-taught in the traditional church calendar. The next important date on that calendar is “Epiphany,” so, from this liturgically-curious-evangelical to you, I

It’s New Year’s Eve! When we usher in a new year and make new year’s resolutions. We embrace the opportunity to put the past year — with all

Happy fourth day of Christmas, everyone! I hope your “four calling birds” arrived safely and are getting along swimmingly with your partridge, two turtle doves, and three French

  It’s Christmas Eve, so I thought I’d share something simple and a bit fun, but hopefully thoughtful too.   Photo by Andrew Kitzmiller

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my grandmother passed away. She was a big part of my growing up, and especially my holiday memories. She LOVED Christmas. Her house contained

Last year, I posted this little piece on my Advent reading over at my blog, The Beautiful Extras. I’m reposting it this year, because I can’t recommend these

Photo by goforchris The four Sundays preceding Christmas are what is known on the Christian calendar as Advent, a term that derives from the Latin, adventus, which means,

Christmas presents tend to get a bad rap in Christian culture. (Get it? Bad (w)rap? Ba-dum ching!) And while materialism is a problem we have in this society, presents are