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Religion

Footsteps to Follow: Real Christmas

The Lord asked me this question about Christmas. I have heard about the history of Christmas. First it started as Christ-mass. As time went on, it became other names. But what is the real Christmas? It is supposed to be about the birth of the Christ Child. Well, let’s see what we can find ...

Footsteps to Follow: How Chanukah made the world safe for Christmas

Since the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7 and the ensuing Israeli response, it has become increasingly uncomfortable and even dangerous to be Jewish in the United States and around the world. Anyone who has studied European and Middle Eastern history knows this is a centuries-old phenomenon. With ...

What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated around the world

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means ...

Footsteps to Follow: The chickens of Christmas

I am afraid of heights and was especially so at age 7. This fear revealed itself one Saturday on the playground at Washington Park where my family and the Snyders went for a picnic. There was a huge sliding board there that looked to me to be three stories high, and its bright, shiny metal ...

Footsteps to Follow: Reaching out for peace

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” John 14:27 (NIV). These quoted words of Jesus, spoken on the very night before He hung on the cross, remind us to reach out to Christ for ...