Christmas carols are more than just festive songs. They are hymns of faith, narrating the nativity story. Carols date back centuries, evolving from early Christian hymns. They offer a message of hope ...

Even with today’s nonstop Christmas soundtrack, churches can still embrace the storytelling and nostalgia that comes with seasonal hymns. “Once a year,” wrote Brennan Manning in Reflections for ...

I grew up singing traditional English Christmas hymns. Then I went caroling with my church in India. Last year, my husband and I went Christmas caroling with our church in Bhopal, a city in central ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...