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Ideals Christmas 2024
Celebrate the wonder and hope of this holiday season with Christmas Ideals, an 80-year tradition and family favorite.
Continuing its legacy of holiday cheer and warmth, this Ideals annual Christmas edition is a collection of poetry, essays, quotations, recipes, and Bible excerpts. Each carefully chosen selection from authors such as C.S. Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Peter Marshall is complemented by full-color artwork or beautiful photography to inspire and remind readers about the meaning of Christmas. Since 1944, loyal readers and their families have been drawn to Ideals as a time-honored tradition each Christmas.
Each issue of Ideals celebrates the meanings and traditions of the Christmas and Easter holidays with uplifting poetry, thoughtful essays, full-color artwork, beautiful photos, and seasonal recipes. These annual issues have been sought out by readers since 1944, when Van B. Hooper’s popular employee newsletter became a magazine. Throughout the years, classic writers and artists have graced the pages of Ideals along with up-and-coming writers to fulfill Mr. Hooper’s vision of creating “a book of old-fashioned ideals, homey philosophy, poetry, music, inspiration, and art.
At Ideals, we hope to do the following:
Cultivate and Honor Traditions
Celebrate Changing Seasons
Foster Community
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ideals still published? Yes, Ideals has been in continuous publication since 1944. We continue to publish two annual issues: EASTER and CHRISTMAS.
Is Ideals available by subscription? No. Although we no longer offer a mail-order subscription service, new issues can be purchased from stores such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, ChristianBook.com, Lifeway, and other fine retail stores as they become available. A local bookstore can also special order new issues from our distributor on your behalf.
Do you have old issues of Ideals to sell? Unfortunately, we do not have old issues or collector’s copies to sell at this time. Consider looking for these back issues at yard sales, thrift stores, used bookstores, ebay, abebooks, alibris, and other used book webstores.
May I submit my poem or story to be published by Ideals? Please send us an email to ask for submission guidelines. Thank you. IdealsInfo@hbgusa.com.
I am trying to find a poem, recipe, or story that appeared in a past issue of Ideals. At this time we do not have a way to easily locate material from all our past issues. If you know the specific issue and year in which the poem appeared, the author’s name, or exact title, we might be able to locate it for you. However, please keep in mind that we are a small office and we are unable to devote a lot of time researching. We suggest posting this question on our Facebook page. We have many fans and collectors who may be familiar enough with the magazines and might recognize it. You can sometimes find what you are looking for by doing a quick internet search.
I would like to use a poem or photograph that appeared in Ideals. Ideals buys only one-time rights to the articles, poems, and photographs published in our books and magazines. Consequently, in most cases we cannot give permission to reprint any selections from our publications. We may need to refer you to the original author, copyright holder, or photographer. In a few cases, Ideals does own the work. Contact Ideals for information regarding the exact piece you wish to use and in what manner it will be reproduced. Email us: IdealsInfo@hbgusa.com