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A Message from the Editor Dear readers, The entire LifeSiteNews family would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas! Thank you for coming through in our Christmas fundraising campaign. As of writing we've raised $189,000 of our $200,000 goal. If you're still interested in donating, we would very much welcome whatever you could offer. You can donate here. We’ve had a custom here for the last decade or so of publishing Christmas reflections by our staff on Christmas Eve. We encourage you to read each of these often personal and always thoughtful pieces as you go about celebrating the birth of our Saviour. Here's the full listing of this year's reflections: No room at the inn -- Kirsten Andersen T.S. Eliot and Christmas’s dual message -- Steve Weatherbe What’s under our tree this Christmas – promise not to tell? -- John-Henry Westen Faith, family, and friends: that’s what I’m taking stock in this Christmas -- Lisa Bourne And a little child shall lead them…to their new home -- Pete Baklinski Embracing the noise of Christmas -- Jenna Craine (my wife!) An Exodus story -- Thaddeus Baklinski One really big, wonderful family -- Steve Jalsevac The reflections will be highlighted on our front page throughout our Christmas break, which we take every year between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. We’ll be back again with our regular publishing schedule on January 2. God bless you all! Patrick Craine Associate Editor & Canadian Bureau Chief LifeSiteNews.com Featured Wed Dec 24, 2014 - 12:00 pm EST Merry Christmas from LifeSite! By Patrick B. Craine Wed Dec 24, 2014 - 12:00 pm EST An Exodus story By Thaddeus Baklinski Wed Dec 24, 2014 - 12:00 pm EST What's under our tree this Christmas – promise not to tell? By John-Henry Westen

Editor's Picks

The real ‘war on Christmas’: it’s not what you think it is By Jonathon van Maren Jesus Claus and Santa Christ By Ryan Bomberger T.S. Eliot and Christmas's dual message Mary Wagner arrested again in Toronto while speaking to abortion-minded women By John Bulsza

Top News No room at the inn Every year, LSN asks its writers to write Christmas reflections before we break for the holiday, and normally, it's not a problem for me. This year, however, was different. By Kirsten Andersen Embracing the noise of Christmas Between the animals mooing and braying around the Infant, the shepherds arriving hastily in a crowd, and the multitude of angels singing glory to God in the highest, Bethlehem seems to have erupted in a near-symphony of joyful Noise that first Christmas. By Jenna Craine And a little child shall lead them…to their new home As I reflect on Perpetua's short life and her much too short stay with us, I am reminded of a verse from Scripture that seems to describe her relationship to our family: 'And a little child shall lead them…' By Pete Baklinski Faith, family, and friends: that's what I'm taking stock in this Christmas I don't need a particular holiday to be thankful, I'm happy to be so any day. But Christmas is a fabulous time to be grateful. By Lisa Bourne One really big, wonderful family I can't imagine doing anything other than this work. As we say, the rewards are out of this world. By Steve Jalsevac The Pulse Planned Parenthood’s newest low: Abortion-themed s’mores at Christmas? Just when you thought sexualizing children as a revenue plan, playing 'healthcare hero' to maintain grip on the multi-million-dollar government dole, committing Medicaid fraud, advocating immoral behavior, and snuffing out unborn life for profit wasn't enough. By Lisa Bourne Blogs Jesus Claus and Santa Christ There is a Savior who continues to love, continues to redeem and doesn't need to be repackaged for a 21st century world. By Ryan Bomberger The real ‘war on Christmas’: it’s not what you think it is Our cultural battlefields are littered with the corpses of children created in the image of God, but butchered with Herodian zeal. By Jonathon van Maren

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