Christmas
When Faith Rang Louder than War: The Back Story to “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
The bells should not have mattered. Yes, it was Christmas morning. But the nation was at war. Cannons thundered across battlefields. Homes mourned sons who would never return. And in…
Read MoreThe Winter That Should’ve Ended America—And Why It Didn’t
The winter of 1777 should’ve been the end of the Great American Revolution. Everything was going wrong for our patriot forefathers. Throughout the fall of 1777, the British tightened their…
Read MoreHark! The Herald Wesley Wrote: How a Christmas Hymn Transformed America
In 1739 a young colonial Georgia preacher wrote a “Hymn for Christmas Day.” His opening line was “Hark! how all the welkin rings.” Welkin is an old Dutch word for…
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