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This site contains CWNY’s works from 3/3/12 through 7/31/21, when CWNY ceased writing, as noted by his family in The Minstrel Sleeps. To download a pdf of all posts from this time period, go to About this site. (You may also download individual posts and pages, using a plugin we’ve made available.)
Please note that this site includes all posts from his previously de-platformed blog, which were completely restored as of 6/10/22. Should you wish to view only those restored posts, use the category link: Older posts (pre-April 2019).
For CWNY’s writing from 5/25/06 to 2/25/12, visit his older blog, still available here.
More content on this site is also available on the Remembrances page, which includes his final, albeit unfinished, Christmas story, and To His Readers (4/21/19), which he posted after his return from being deplatformed.
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Category Archives: Christmas
O Holy Child of Bethlehem
“The world is no doubt encroaching on our families and our Christmas. The hatred against traditional morality is becoming so intense as to be scarcely believable.” – Letter from a friend, December 21, 2019 But the chief priests and elders … Continue reading
Purely Sentimental
The national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation. He sat writing in the room with the deadly statistical … Continue reading
The Mystic Toyland
Childhood’s joy land,Mystic, merry toy landOnce you cross its bordersYou can ne’er return again. -Mother Goose in The March of the Wooden Soldiers _____ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, … Continue reading
The Light of the World
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.The stars in the sky looked down where he lay,The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes,But … Continue reading
The Sign of Our Redemption
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. … Continue reading
Merry Christmas!
Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality, and lifts the spirit to a state of hallowed and … Continue reading
The Cross of Christ and Europe Are One
They borrowed a bed to lay His headWhen Christ the Lord came down;They borrowed the ass in the mountain passFor Him to ride to town;But the crown that He wore and the cross that He boreWere His own–The cross was … Continue reading
Merry Christmas
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and … Continue reading
Christmas Land is Our Nation
So let us state what is true. God reveals Himself to us through the intimate, mysterious human relationships we form with our kith and kin. The moral beauty of the European hearth, where our kith and kin dwell, points us … Continue reading
The People of Christmas
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew: “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it … Continue reading