With Black Friday and Christmas fast approaching, the holiday season brings with it the challenge of finding the perfect gift—one that truly sparks joy and lasting excitement. Forget the fleeting ...

Jacob's Joy, Inc. is a nonprofit offering free camps and retreats for children with serious illnesses and their families.

For the 2025 Toy for Joy campaign, time is of the essence and the time to donate is now. The Christmas Eve campaign deadline arrives this week. It seems like just yesterday that the drive kicked off ...

TRIANGLE, Va., Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the holiday season approaches, millions of children across America face the heartbreaking possibility of waking up to nothing on Christmas morning. Their ...

When struggling families show up on the doorstep of Joy Junction, they do everything they can to keep families together. Regardless of how a family ends up there, Joy Junction’s focus is always on ...

(RNS) — Author Emily Stimpson Chapman discusses the pressures of rewriting the Bible, serving as a bridge between young Catholics and Scripture, and her new sense of being a spiritual mother. (RNS) — ...

Kyle Amsler has been a Child Life Coordinator at George Mark Children's House for the past seven years. Her work involves creating joy for patients and their siblings through therapeutic activities, ...

Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse Grant Elford, 9, takes his turn as his cousin, Hyatt Conger, 9, plans his next move in the giant Connect Four game at Christmas in July at the Village Green in Canfield ...

If you're planning a camping trip with the kids—whether it's in the forest or backyard camping—picture this scene: Everyone is gathered around the roaring campfire. The marshmallows have been roasted, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The private ...

At its best, Joy Williams’s “The Pelican Child” is delightfully unhinged; at its worst, willfully weird and repetitive. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...