TOPIC INDEXChristmas (23)

  1. CHA Weekend Edition: The Life and Faith of the Man who “Invented” Christmas

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    12/17/22
    1 min read
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for December 17-18, 2022

  2. Dan van Voorhis and the History of Christmas

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    12/15/22
    2 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis Kelsi Klembara
    Join Kelsi as she chats with 1517 Scholar in Residence, Dan van Voorhis, about the magic of Christmas.

  3. CHA Weekend Edition: the Christmas History Almanac

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    12/10/22
    1 min read
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for December 10-11, 2022

  4. Monday, December 5, 2022

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    12/05/22
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the show, we head to the mailbag to answer another Christmas question.

  5. CHA Weekend Edition Presents: The AdventMas Hymn Countdown

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    12/03/22
    1 min read
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for December 3-4, 2022

  6. God is not Dead nor does He Sleep: Christmas Bells in 2020

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    12/25/20
    8 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    This story of despair met with the hope of the gospel is rightly told by many during the holiday season.

  7. The Curious Tale of the Three Kings and their Belated Christmas Carol

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    12/27/19
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    It is that Christmas carol, the curious “We Three Kings” that we are looking at today in our examination of the origin and meaning of Christmas carols.

  8. Like A Kid On Christmas

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    12/25/19
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    As Christians, we are not cold ascetics, depriving ourselves in the here and hereafter. We are given good things from our heavenly Father in heaven, and even a foretaste of the things to come.

  9. Merry Christmas, Charles the Great!

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    12/24/18
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    The celebration of He who came in humility, who would upend the Kingdoms of this world, was eclipsed by men grasping at the power of each other’s supposed kingdoms.

  10. Savior of the Nations, Christmas for the Heathens!

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    12/06/18
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    The incarnation was universal, irrespective of nationality, race, or even Christmas tradition.

  11. Death and Christmas

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    12/24/14
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    I know it’s a rite of pious holiday passage to complain about the commercialization of Christmas and to remind everyone to keep the “Christ” in Christmas. And don’t forget the secular “war on Christmas." Whatever.