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Christmas is full of traditions. One of the best I have read is from Iceland, where the traditional Christmas present is books. After receiving a book on Christmas Eve, Icelanders spend the rest of the night reading them. The book buying and selling season, spurred by the Christmas Eve tradition even…

According to "Santa's Relativistic Journey" for Santa Claus to be able “to deliver all his presents in one 12-hour night, he would have to travel at 76 percent the speed of light the entire time.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cinderellas-glass-slipper-wouldve-shattered_5681d41de4b06fa68880fcd6?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird+News&section=weird-news…

As Apollo was the ideal of Greek youth, so Artemis was the model of Greek girlhood – strong, athletic, graceful, chaste; and yet again she was the patroness of women in childbirth, who prayed to her to ease their pains. At Ephesus she kept her Asiatic character as a goddess of motherhood and fertility.…

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. Source: The Quotations Page (http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27599.html, accessed 14-Jan-2009).

The difference between religion and salvation can be summed up in two words: do and done. – D.L. Moody

There is a story about Russia in the days of the Czars. In the park of St. Petersburg Winter Palace there was a beautiful lawn, on that lawn a bench, and next to that bench, two guards. Every three hours the guards were changed. Yet no one could explain why these guards were guarding the bench. One day…

When I was doing the research for my book The Psychology of Winning, I came across a study of a native tribe in South America. The people in the tribe had been dying prematurely from a strange illness for many generations. Scientists finally discovered that the disease was carried by an insect that lived…

"Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living." -- Jaroslav Pelikan

The military salute originated with Hannibal, the Carthaginian general. A messenger, dismounting before the great leader, was about to extend words of greeting when a fly lighted upon his nose. Because of the formality of the occasion he could hardly brush it away casually, so he snapped to attention…

The poet T. S. Eliot in his famous poem "The Wasteland," calls April the "cruelest month," because the showers of April stir up the dull and dormant roots of trees and flowers to begin bursting forth with new life instead of allowing them to remain comfortably asleep in the frozen ground of winter. Yet…

God’s hands that form us are skilled hands: He knows exactly how to sculpt us into Christ’s image… In biblical times, most potters learned their craft from their fathers. In cities like Jerusalem, there was even a section of shops known as the Potters’ District. Families kept studios there, and the craft…

I'm thinking of a small-town church in upstate New York. They'd had a rector in that church for over thirty-five years. He was loved by the church and the community. After he retired, he was replaced by a young priest. It was his first church; he had a great desire to do well. He had been at the church…

ILLUSTRATION: Grace, Salvation David Jeremiah points out that in the 1980s, the Smith-Barney brokerage firm made a series of commercials in which distinguished actor John Houseman spoke the famous line, "We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it!" Sometime later, based on that commercial, a Christian…