“There is a world where still.” The Christmas Plains by Jody Bottum (page 92). The phrase “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” comes from an editorial published in The Sun, a New York City newspaper, on September 21, 1897. It was...
By all rights, Christianity shouldn’t have succeeded. It began as a tiny sect in a backwater province of the Roman Empire. It demanded costly sacrifices from followers: strict sexual ethics, rejection of civic festivals, and refusal to worship the emperor. The...
