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Xmas did not originate as a secular plan to "take Christ out of Christmas". [1] X represents the Greek letter chi, the first letter of Χριστός (Christós), "Christ" in Greek, as found in the chi-rho symbol (ΧΡ) since the 4th century. In English, "X" was first used as a scribal abbreviation for "Christ" in 1021.
Comparative rates of homicides involving family members between 1980 and 2008. Killing by a spouse or ex-spouse exceeds the rate of all other categories. In proportion to the total number of family homicides, killing by spouses and ex-spouses fell from 52% to 37% during this period. Meanwhile, murder of the children went up 57%. [60]
A Blessed Life; A Child's Hope; A Classic Tour; A Dance of Moths; A Gesture Life; A Head Full of Dreams Tour; A Land Imagined; A Life of Hope; A Many-Splendoured Thing