Wikipedia: The Church of the Nativity (Arabic: كنيسة المهد‎) in Bethlehem is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Christ, and it is considered sacred by followers of both Christianit...

This latest newsmaking foible has numerous elements that commonly surface here on Scanner: the cheerleaders, the stripper pole, the drunken hijinks, the overage guy being inappropriate with the underage people, and that modern classic, getting in trouble when you post photos on Facebook.  And n...

That troubled land, torn and splitknowing war, strife, too longEscape through there, to a landonce of oppression, now of refugeOnce of hope, now of struggleback into that land, give and takeinnocent blood shed; in the stories, in the news, innocents in the cross-fireforever under threat, ruthless, i...

Masshysteri Vår del av stan Ny våg/Sound Pollution Trio från sorgligt avsomnade The Vicious. Fin och melankolisk punk. Myspace Hello Confusion Into the Daze and Round the Bend Egenutgivet Rock och pop med en hög andel gitarrer. Skulle nog lika gärna kunnat ha varit britter och inte från Sverig...

Filed under: New Year's, Food News Everyone knows that on New Year's Eve, New York City drops a glittery ball over Times Square. However, there are a number of other cities around the country that also drop objects as a way to welcome the new year and, in Pennsylvania, they all seem to be food relat...

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Festivals and Events, United States Jeffery wrote about weird New Year's traditions around the world. There are also weird items that drop at midnight New Year's Eve. Sure you can watch the ball drop at Time's Square in New York City on New Year's Eve, either in person...

[On Christmas Eve, I received the following email from Augusta County businessman Tom Sheets. I had written about the Bethlehem Village at Afton in the SWAC-GOP News and on this blog, and he wrote to tell me of his experience. With permission, I share his heart-warming message.] Last Friday night, t...

And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee,......

it's 4:30 a.m. christmas morning and, after having escorted my aging and insistent bladder to the appropriate place of relief, i thought i'd check my email prior to crawling back between those delicious flannel sheets to grab a last bit of shut-eye, before the grandsons shoot out of their beds like ...

Luke 2:1-18 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register....