Holiday History

We know that Jesus was not born December 25, AD 0. This date was selected by a monk in the sixth century. We believe that we have learned the more precise date, having found the date for the Star of Bethlehem and the scientific manner that God used to create and display it.

All across the world, among hundreds of cultures and across centuries, people have come together to give thanks. But Americans didn’t have an official Thanksgiving holiday until the 1800s. The holiday Americans know today exists because of a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale, a spirited letter-writing campaign, a sympathetic president, and a civil war.

This book contains the other sections of World Mythology Lite that didn't make it into the first book. There are descriptions of ancient deities and heroes in this book.

As featured on Bible Gateway, the Witness the Bible series is designed to help believers and seekers activate the reality of Jesus and his love for us. The text is taken entirely from the Revised Geneva Translation. Witness the Bible: Esther is the sixth volume in the series.

Sherlock Holmes has taken on unusual and dangerous cases. Cases that involve shapeshifters, vampires and werewolves… Dark, power-hungry wizards…. But this time, it is different. It is personal. When he returns home, he finds a mystery growing around his own friends. One by one they are mysteriously vanishing. Taken by an invisible force, which can strike unexpectedly, his loved ones are vanishing without a trace. Can Holmes save the ones he loves this time? Or is Christmas going to be desolate and empty for him? Buy now.

Chris Claussen is an arrogant jerk, and if he’s not stopped, he will soon kill all the deer in Snow Falls. That is why Carol agrees to help him learn the ways of the deermaster, something which he has mostly had to figure out by himself thus far. But using certain kinds of magic before Christmas Eve is forbidden, and if she chooses to do so, Carol will endanger the lives of everyone in Snow Falls, not to mention herself. The only problem is, if she doesn’t help Chris...Christmas might never happen again.

This audiobook is an investigation about the idea that Thanksgiving is a dark holiday and what that says about American culture.