A National Geographic article describes how the winter solstice has been celebrated since ancient times.

"Winter solstice and the shaman within; It is we ourselves who must don the shaman's mask," is an article by Patricia Montley in the Winter, 2011 UU World magazine.

Read "Light a Candle, Curse the Dark," a sermon given by Douglas Taylor at the UU Congregation of Binghamton, NY, October 8, 2006.