Drop the Blanket
For nearly 60 years, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has brightened the lives of millions of people. In a tender scene, Linus, in response to Charlie’s Brown’s question about the true meaning of Christmas, recites the story of the birth of Jesus from Luke’s gospel.
Song of the Stars
This breathtakingly beautiful children’s story imagines all of creation recognizing that the time had finally come for the fulfillment of prophecy, which foretold that at just the right time God would enter the world as a baby in Bethlehem. The story begins, “The world was about to change forever”. And it has . . .
John Henry Faulk’s Christmas Story
This post includes another moving Christmas story recorded in 1974 by the gifted radio broadcaster and storyteller, John Henry Faulk, for the program Voices in the Wind . . .
A Christmas Memory
Many years ago during one Advent season, I discovered an old book in my parent’s home titled “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. I often searched my parents’ book shelves as my mother was an avid collector of old books. To her every one was a treasure. This particular book was a thin, plain, cheaply made book, published in 1956 with the picture above glued to the book cover . . .
The Tale of Barrington Bunny
Nearly 50 years ago I discovered a book in my parent’s home titled “The Way of the Wolf” written by Martin Bell, an author, musician, and Episcopal priest. This book, published in 1970, includes the Christmas classic, “Barrington Bunny”, which I first read to a high school youth group when I was in college. Several decades later, when my granddaughters were older . . .