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If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” congratulations — your intuition is correct and possibly clairvoyant. Christmas, for ...

When you gather around the Christmas tree or stuff goodies into a stocking, you're taking part in traditions that stretch back thousands of years — long before Christianity entered the mix. Subscribe ...

It's often claimed that many of today's Christmas traditions derive from the pre-Christian observances of pagan cults suppressed by Roman authorities. The story goes that, after Christianity became ...