Christmas is a season of blessing. So do not put away the carols (or the lights) until you have to.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” is the Gospel transposed onto celluloid. The message is the same in both.

“Humility is the only way that leads us to God.”

I was one of thousands of disconnected people working in the background, in order to deliver packages that are supposed to make us feel somehow more connected.

This Christmas season brought a new trend: arresting the Grinch.

John Updike, long one of the nation's finest novelists and short story writers, also wrote extensively about the Christian imagination (and once on his misgivings about Santa Claus).