[caption id="attachment_7347" align="alignright" width="300"] Winter Solstice at Stonehenge (Photo by Mark Grant. Used through a Creative Commons license.)[/caption] The winter solstice approaches and soon the sun’s course will reach its lowest noon altitude and its...

"Skating away --- skating away --- skating away on the thin ice of the new day."       - Ian Anderson, "Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day)" War Child ....

The most important and oldest date on the Christian calendar is the celebration of Easter, the death and resurrection of Christ. The whole of Christianity rests on this event and without it, Christian mythology simply...