Is a Christmas tree or menorah secular holiday decor? Can an HOA board insists on a manger despite a committee's decision?

CHRISTMAS is often termed a "holy day" or a "festival" or festive day. The holy day is the religious facet of Christmas, and the 'festive' is its secular ...

Lockhart and Davale provided refreshing reminders of some of the so-called secular joys of Christmas. “As a Prairie person, it took me years of living in Vancouver to adjust to green grass in ...

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The courts and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have considered whether various symbols are religious or secular. A Christmas tree is secular, as is a picture of Santa, and a menorah.

I no longer enjoyed commercial Christmas music. I began to critically observe how we have diminished the mystery of the incarnation of Christ, transforming it into secular celebrations marked by ...

Appalachian Christmas,” held Sunday at the Lutheran Church of the Atonement on Oakwoods Road in Wilkesboro, is a popular annual event with local musicians on banjo, guitar, fiddle, autoharp, piano ...

And there isn't a Jesus in the secular Christmas. But really I don't think there's a lot of difference between a secular and Christian Christmas. Secular Christmas has consumerism and Santa. Christian ...

Wilson notes two important details. First, Christmas was codified alongside multiple secular holidays. Second, the legal wording identified the holiday through its date, Dec. 25, not the religious ...