Christmas Around the World

You can tell a lot about a culture by the way it celebrates Christmas. Some places mark the season with candlelit processions, others with fireworks exploding over city roofs, and many with tables so full of holiday dishes that they bend like they’re part of the story. But no matter the country, something about this winter celebration seems to wrap…

Christmas may be one date on the calendar, but the way the world celebrates it is anything but uniform. Walk down a snowy street in Vienna, a sunlit plaza in Mexico City, or a lantern-lit alley in…

Christmas Day arrives each year with a sense of familiarity—like a long-awaited guest who brings warmth the moment they step through the door. Even before the morning sun rises, the day feels…

The calendar marks it as December 25th, but those digits on a page barely scratch the surface of what Christmas truly means. It’s more than a federal holiday, more than a frenzied shopping season, and certainly more than a simple celebration of winter. For many of us, it’s a feeling—a deep, resonant warmth that cuts right through the year’s…