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If someone told you that our contemporary Valentine's Day was rooted in an ancient ruler's need to recruit soldiers for battle, a subsequent ban on the bond of holy matrimony, and the execution of a priest named Valentine, well, one might wonder wher...

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The Meaning of Thanksgiving

By Martha Bettis-Gee

How will you spend this Thanksgiving? In a traditional way? What does that mean, and where did that tradition come from? Do we celebrate Thanksgiving as it was first celebrated? Do we even know how it was first celebrated? This one-session study tell...

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Learn to LIVE* in 21 Days (*Listen, Immerse, View It Wider, and Explore)

New Year's Resolutions

By Jason Byassee

Is there anything inherently religious about the ways we celebrate New Year's? Should there be? In this one-session study, author Jason Byassee shares some ways Christians might celebrate New Year's. The Leader's Guide invites participants to reflect...

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Has the joy of Christmas being replaced by the chores of the holidays? How did ■we let that happen? In this study, participants will trace the history of Christmas, ■learn to recognize the secular elements of the Christian holiday, and consider ■ways in which they can make their celebration of Christmas less stressful, more ■fulfilling, and more spiritually meaningful as a Christian celebration.

Reclaiming Christmas
Seeking an Alternative

By Greg Garrett

If you're anything like most Americans, the upcoming Christmas season will be a mixed blessing-along with time with friends and family and at least some attempt to focus on "the reason for the season," you will probably find yourself eating too much,...

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Why do we so often make mythical heroes out of people of faith like Saint ■Patrick? (And what's with all those shamrocks, anyway?!)

St. Patrick's Day
A Study for Adults

By Martha Bettis-Gee

For most people, knowledge of the origins of St. Patrick's Day are limited to a story based largely on myth and folk tales, but behind those traditions is the story of the patron saint of Ireland. Under the surface of the traditional celebrations of ...

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Trick or Treat
What's Halloween About?

By Stephens G. Lytch

How should Christians respond to Halloween? What are the origins of Halloween, and is there any connection to All Saints' Day? This one-session study explains the evolution of Halloween and the traditions of the holiday so that Christians may examine...

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