Merry Christmas

Why ‘Merry Christmas’ is better than ‘Happy Holidays’ for Americans of all faiths

By Khyati Y. Joshi — December 17, 2021
(RNS) — 'Happy Holidays' does nothing to change the privilege that Christians enjoy in the United States.

Keeping the longing for Christ in Christmas

By Tara Isabella Burton — December 16, 2019
(RNS) — Advent, with its carols and holiday parties, may be the last vestige of a liturgical life lived in common. But even those who want to keep the Christ in Christmas forget that the season is about the hunger that we feel for the redeemed world.

Trump: The grinch who stole ‘Merry Christmas’

By Brandon Ambrosino — December 1, 2017
(RNS) — How I long for the days when the War on Christmas was a fiction.

‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Happy Holidays’? What these preferences reveal

By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 19, 2016
(RNS) — Americans remain split on on how to greet others at stores at this time of year. Their answers reveal religious and partisan divides.
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