Bell chimes echo in the frosted air, marking the start for festivities. Candles flicker like tiny stars against the dark ...

It's mid-December and in Sweden that means Lucia: groups of white-robed people singing with candles on their heads. But what ...

That saying is bouncing around in my mind as we approach another holiday season: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yuletide (the pagan celebration of the winter solstice), and, of course, the new year.

A growing number of Britons who leave Christianity are turning to paganism or other forms of spiritualism instead of ...