Your Christmas Culture

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 15, 2014

With its roots in various solstice and gift-giving holidays, Christmas has always been a mash-up of the sacred and profane. Tara Moore, who teaches writing at Penn State York, shares the history of the holiday from her new book Christmas: The Sacred to Santa (Reaktion Books, 2014), and talks about how cultural differences play out around December 25th.

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