Leadership Quote by Jeff Guinn

“In New England, prejudice against marking the birth of Jesus either in church or in the family lingered until the late nineteenth century: Christmas…

— Gerry Bowler

“Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast.”

— Anne Rice

“And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century before Plymouth,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Despite what some Christians may want to believe, Christmas, as celebrated by many Americans, is a cultural, not a religious holiday. If Jesus were…

— Andreas J. Kostenberger

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

“It’s telling that Americans know and celebrate Plymouth but Jamestown hardly at all. The myth we’ve constructed says that the first nonnative new Americans…

— Kurt Andersen

“And so in Christmas, we turn to the principalities and powers (those that are left), conduct our celebrations, and all God’s people say, “Take…

— Douglas Wilson

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we…

— Finley Peter Dunne

“It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season of the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If Jesus were to be completely removed from the equation, Americans could continue to celebrate Christmas with hardly an interruption.”

— Andreas J. Kostenberger

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

— Jay Leno

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but…

— Charles Spurgeon