Dawn Kepler is the director of Building Jewish Bridges, an outreach to interfaith families in Berkeley, Calif.

Edmund Case was the CEO of InterfaithFamily.com, an online resource for families who incorporate more than one religion in their practices. After retiring from InterfaithFamily.com, Case founded the Center for Radically Inclusive Judaism to advocate for radically inclusive attitudes and policies toward interfaith families – and for programmatic efforts designed to engage interfaith families in […]

Read a Christianity Today article, “Peace on Earth? Christmas Carols and the Civil War.”

Read a pair of December 2003 columns by Terry Mattingly about carols: “A Caroling We (Don’t) Go” and “What is a ‘carol’ anyway?”

Kenneth W. Osbeck of Rockford, Mich., is the author of Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions (Kregel Publications, 2002) and Joy to the World: The Stories Behind Your Favorite Christmas Carols (Kregel, 2000).

Christmas music historian Ron Clancy of North Cape May, N.J., produces the “Millennia Collection,” a multivolume set of Christmas music books and CDs.

The Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston has held a special Christmas Eve service in which the Nativity story is read and Christmas carols are sung. Contact Swami Tyagananda.

Read a Nov. 21, 2011, article in the New York Times about gratitude and Thanksgiving.

Read Gregg Easterbrook’s Beliefnet column on gratitude research.