At our Christmas Day service we enjoyed singing a variety of carols (old and new) and looked at the carol 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'. One of the oldest carols (probably written in Latin in the 12th century), this is always sung as the penultimate carol in the Festival...

For some, Christmas Eve is a flurry of activity: shopping, cooking, cleaning. For me, Christmas Eve was always about celebrating my father’s birthday (usually with a meal out), watching the carol service from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge on television and...

I’m thankful for the fact that December was always the month for birthdays in my family. My uncle’s birthday was on 19th December, my mother’s on 23rd December and my father’s on 24th December. I grew up celebrating birthdays in December and the fact that we have...