Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Guest Post: Miraculous births and divine parents in the time of Jesus

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by Meredith J C Warren , University of Sheffield Many people are familiar with the stories in the New Testament gospels of Luke and Matt...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Guest Post: Your child probably knows the truth about Santa

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by Kate Ellis-Davies , Nottingham Trent University Most parents lie to their children. It’s usually done to get the children to behave th...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Guest Post: Uncovering the language of the first Christmas

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by Tony Thorne , King's College London As Christmas draws near, the now typical jokes pile up on social media. Jesus is commended fo...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Guest Post: Scandinavian winters of old were less hygge, more Nordic Noir

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by Hannah Burrows , University of Aberdeen This winter hygge has replaced Nordic Noir as the UK’s favourite Scandi-import. But the fest...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Guest Post: Five ways Christmas affects your brain

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by Kira Shaw , University of Sussex Christmas is a time of year like no other; gifts are exchanged, little-spoken-to relatives are conta...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Guest Post: 5 Laws That Could Send Santa to Federal Prison

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by David Rosenthal While most people know Jolly Old Saint Nick as a friendly figure, he too is not immune from the perils of administrativ...

Guest Post: How did we come to celebrate Christmas?

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by Bronwen Neil , Australian Catholic University Christmas is literally “the mass for Christ”, the day on which Christians celebrate th...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Guest Post: What would you have eaten for Christmas in medieval times?

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by Iona McCleery , University of Leeds With Christmas almost upon us, there will be plenty of frenzied present shopping and meal plannin...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Guest Post: A short history of three very famous Christmas carols

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by Peter Roennfeldt , Griffith University Singing and Christmas seem to go naturally together, like plum pudding and custard. Even thos...