Hobby Lobby Distributes 500,000 Free Copies of The Case for Christmas Nationwide

December 18, 2025

Christian author and apologist Lee Strobel has announced that arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby is giving away half a million complimentary copies of his book The Case for Christmas, at its retail locations across the country.

Christianity Daily reports that the book being distributed, “The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger,” is what Strobel calls a “completely revised and updated version of his original work.

The Case for Christmas is part of Strobel’s broader “Case for” series which started with his 1998 book “The Case for Christ” which documents his work as an atheist journalist who set out to prove Christianity wrong and instead became converted.

During his acceptance speech while accepting the Museum of the Bible’s 2023 Pillar Award for history, Strobel said, “I was an atheist for much of my life, and I lived a very immoral and drunken and narcissistic and profane life.”

According to Christianity Daily, Strobel said he set out to disprove Christianity after his wife embraced it following an invitation from a neighbor to attend church.

Strobel said, “I thought religion was a crutch, that it was based on make-believe. I thought faith was believing in something even though you knew in your heart it couldn’t be true.”

But after two years of investigation, Strobel said he found that “based on the avalanche of evidence that points so powerfully toward the truth of Christianity, it would take more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian.”

Hobby Lobby, which operates more than a thousand stores in the lower 48 states, is highlighting its Christian identity by distributing 500,000 copies of Strobel’s book for free during the Christmas season.

Photo: top, Credit: X/Lee Strobel