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Shortly before the Christmas recess, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), introduced a bill entitled the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020 [...]

On Christmas Eve throughout the world, when the partying, the decorating, the feasting, and the merrymaking are finished, family Bibles are opened, children gather around a father, a mother, a [...]

There are thousands of Christmas carols, some beautiful, some humorous, some just plain bad. Many of the traditional hymns are musical homages to the birth of our Lord. Some, such as Handel’s [...]

“The Three Levels of Christmas” was published as a Church News “Viewpoint” in the Dec. 15, 1985, issue of the Deseret News. It was written by then-editor and general [...]

I first read this story in the Readers’ Digest about 1982. It stuck with me over the years. Originally published in 1964, it was picked up by the Readers’ Digest and since has been re-published [...]

All that is known of this poem is that it was written by a Marine in Okinawa. That would lead one to believe that it was written during World War II, but when it was written is of no matter, for [...]

Christmas brings visions of families and friends together, snug, warm, happy. But not all Christmases are that way. Instead of happy greetings, Christmas can be a time of sad farewells. This poem [...]

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. We could change the world if we could figure out how to make this Christmas thing last. Are you [...]

We know that it is better to give than receive, but sometimes we don’t recognize the gift as we give it. It happened one day at the year’s white end,Two neighbors called on an old-time [...]

The next two stories have a theme common in Christmas tales from around the world. All retell the parable given in Matthew 25:40: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my [...]