Tag: Christmas

  • Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Everyone

    Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Everyone

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    by Tom Arnold, ©2025 (Dec. 21, 2025) — The first of these two Christmas songs is a little-known one.  However, many people who do know about it, and The Band (including blues men Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and others over the years) say it may be the best Christmas song of all time. …

  • This Nation, This Christmas, This Warning

    This Nation, This Christmas, This Warning

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    by Michael Bresciani, New American Prophet, ©2025 (Dec. 18, 2025) — “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which…

  • Mein Intifada

    Mein Intifada

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    by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (Dec. 17, 2025) — As in the late ’30s, a shadow of evil is encompassing the world. Like then, the civilized world’s response now is to Chamberlainize and stick their heads in the ground like ostriches. However, the Scimitar of Islam is slowly surrounding those supplicant dirty necks,…

  • The Last Christmas: A Play (RR)

    The Last Christmas: A Play (RR)

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    by Henry, ©2025 (Dec. 16, 2025) — He was the age of reading the directions; he was the age of viewing Washington politics with the same part of his brain that he used to watch cartoons when he was a little kid; he was the age when he listened to his wife; he was the…

  • God in Unexpected Places: A Manger, a Grave, and Even Us

    God in Unexpected Places: A Manger, a Grave, and Even Us

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    by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2025 (Dec. 16, 2025) — I am republishing an updated version of my first Christmas post on Substack for a couple of reasons. First, it’s one of my favorites. As I reread it, hindsight spotted a few improvements that I think have made it better. More importantly, both the…

  • Two Amazing Gifts for Christmas

    Two Amazing Gifts for Christmas

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    by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2025 (Dec. 8, 2025) — Two amazing Christmas gifts came my way when December dawned. The number of followers of By Green Pastures topped 200, and I appeared in my first podcast. I know this isn’t a monumental following, but for 200 readers to say, “I like your writing. Keep it…

  • Two “Orthodox” Christmas Celebrations In UKRAINE: Adiaphorous Or Planned To Be Prejudiced?

    Two “Orthodox” Christmas Celebrations In UKRAINE: Adiaphorous Or Planned To Be Prejudiced?

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    by J. Froebel-Parker, Tsarizm, ©2024  (Dec. 30, 2024) — Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble,Truth Social, Gettr, X   Recently another recognized researcher into the fate of the imperial Russian Romanov family confided to me that an Orthodox friend of hers in Ukraine had written to her expressing surprise that the celebration of Jesus’ birth would be held 2024 in…

  • Christmas and Life over Death

    Christmas and Life over Death

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    by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 24, 2024) — On Monday night, actor, musician and philanthropist Gary Sinise appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” guest-hosted by Raymond Arroyo to speak about his son’s legacy following his 5 1/2-year battle with a rare form of cancer known as “chordoma.” Sinise is well-known for raising as much as $30 million…

  • Discovering Christmas in Isaiah 12

    Discovering Christmas in Isaiah 12

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    by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2024  (Dec. 23, 2024) — I discovered a Christmas carol the other day—not one I found in an obscure songbook or heard on the radio, TV, or YouTube, but one I found while reading Isaiah 12. The prophet’s words whispered of Christmas while I had devotions. Listen in, won’t…

  • Bibi: No Matter What it Takes, Finish It (RR)

    Bibi: No Matter What it Takes, Finish It (RR)

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    by Roving Reporter, ©2024  (Dec. 23, 2024) — “Those were the Days” (5:18) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. I never imagined Jews and Christians being targeted in my own country. I always thought it was an insane act that one could…

  • The Extremely Improbable, Exceedingly Unlikely, Exceptionally Amazing Birth of Christ

    The Extremely Improbable, Exceedingly Unlikely, Exceptionally Amazing Birth of Christ

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    by Michael Snyder, New American Prophet, ©2024 (Dec. 21, 2024) — When we celebrate the birth of Jesus, we are celebrating one of the most improbable miracles in all of human history.  You see, the truth is that not just anyone could have showed up and claimed to be the Messiah. According to the Scriptures, the…

  • Journalist Files Injunction in Insurance Fraud

    Journalist Files Injunction in Insurance Fraud

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE — David Tulis (423) 316-2680  davidtuliseditor@gmail.com CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 — A radio reporter is demanding a judge spare poor Tennesseans from being left shivering on the side of the road after seizure of their cars for “no insurance” under Tennessee department of revenue’s mandatory insurance program. In bid to secure…

  • Another Gift

    Another Gift

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    by Sarah Earlene Shere, ©2024 (Dec. 13, 2024) — Della raised her hand to straighten the combs in her hair for the fifth time since she had placed them there. Her husband, Jim, gently caught it in motion and set it upon his knee with a loving pat. “You look beautiful. Stop fussing.” Della sighed,…

  • Curiosity: An Unsung Means of Grace

    Curiosity: An Unsung Means of Grace

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    by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2024 (Dec. 13, 2024) — Curiosity has killed the cat, spoiled Christmas surprises, and perpetrated every funeral. It is also a means of God’s grace. While I can’t vouch for the cat, I know curiosity has stolen surprises and cost us our lives. For instance, there was the Christmas of…

  • Why Denigrate Jesus, the Son of Mary, Who in the Holy Koran is Feted as the Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived?

    Why Denigrate Jesus, the Son of Mary, Who in the Holy Koran is Feted as the Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived?

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    8 December 2024 Dear Editor, As Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, is so revered in the Holy Koran, why do the captains of commerce and municipal governance, etc., insult Islam by no longer displaying or speaking of the faith’s “Greatest Woman to have ever lived” Son’s name at Christmas by so ungraciously and ungratefully (for…

  • Advent – Its Dual Nature

    Advent – Its Dual Nature

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    by Frederick Andrew Wolf, Jr., New American Prophet, ©2024 (Dec. 7, 2024) — ‘Tis the season, and the faithful of Christianity have already lighted the first of their symbolic Advent candles. Today, even churches averse to liturgical practices find a way to mark the Advent season – if only by recognizing the days remaining until…

  • Carol’s Christmas

    Carol’s Christmas

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    by Sarah Earlene Shere, ©2024 (Dec. 6, 2024) — Carol stood against the flower-papered wall, twisting the fan in her hands as she watched the dancers at the winter ball. One by one the ladies on either side of her had been invited to dance till she was left alone. She pulled her gloves up…

  • Christmas Under Fire (RR)

    Christmas Under Fire (RR)

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    by Roving Reporter, ©2024 (Dec. 3, 2024) — “Justice for All” (2:24) A long time ago in a faraway land a young man stood in a congregation of brave and courageous souls about to sing a song that was dear to their hearts, a song that brought memories of family, friends and peace. Unbeknownst to…

  • A Babe in Toyland

    A Babe in Toyland

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    by Sarah Earlene Shere, ©2024 (May 4, 2024) — Grumio, with tears in his eyes, hovered over the work table of the late Master Toymaker. He stared down at the well-worn, yellowed pages of the ancient book lying open there. A shiver slowly rose up his spine till it shook his shoulders. With a swift,…

  • A Christmas Message for the Times (RR)

    A Christmas Message for the Times (RR)

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    by Roving Reporter, ©2023 (Dec. 24, 2023) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ the place to hear it here first. We’ve been invited down to the little church on Hawthorn Street to listen to Bishop Dunkin’s Christmas Tidings, and there he is, approaching the pulpit, so let’s act…