As Beacon Broadside heads into hibernation for a week, and our staff heads off to gatherings far and near, we offer you these posts, recent and from years' past, to give you some thoughts to reflect upon for the holiday season. See you in 2012!

Arms Wide Open: Lighting Candles for Winter Solstice by Patricia Harman

8 Reasons My Interfaith Family Celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas by Susan Katz Miller

Children of Disappointment and the Season of Hope by David Chura

Your Guide to Holiday Sanity: Talking Politics in a Bipartisan Family by Sophia Raday

What Brings Real Joy at Christmas? by Rev. Marilyn Sewell

Fundamentalist Family, Secular Christmas by Susan Campbell

A Modest Proposal for Your Holiday Correspondence by Jay Wexler

Hanukah: Moving Past Two-Mindedness by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 

Putting Hussein in Christmas by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker

Single at the Holidays: Not Alone, but a Different Kind of Togetherness by Kay Trimberger

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OUR HOLIDAY SALE CONTINUES! Order any book from beacon.org by December 31st and receive 10% off your order and free standard shipping. 

Plus, Beacon Press will donate 20% of total sales to three of its favorite organizations--Harlem Children's Zone, Interfaith Youth Core, and Food Democracy Now!

Use Promo Code HOLIDAY11 at checkout.

A 20% donation from each sale using promo code HOLIDAY10 will be divided between the three organizations: Harlem Children's Zone, Interfaith Youth Core, and Food Democracy Now.