COLUMBIA, S.C. — It's Christmas, a day to be with friends and family and remember the true meaning of the holiday. With that in mind, as we do every year, we thought a proper way to mark the occasion ...
Contemporary retellings of the Nativity story often weave together both narratives found in the Gospel of Matthew and the ...
The Christmas season is now with us! The reading for the first Sunday in the Christmas season (Christmas 1) is Luke ...
Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart” In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinus was ...
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David) to be taxed with ...
Does the Gospel of Luke really tell the truth about the Nativity? Was Quirinius really the governor of Syria at the time of ...
Every detail of Jesus’s birth was part of God’s plan before the foundations of the earth were set in place. So the promises and prophecies of his birth were detailed and specific.
The Southeast Missourian shares the timeless Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke, recounting the humble birth of Jesus in ...
The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...
However, the ’50s also gave rise to new levels of innovation, with a handful of pioneers blending the heartfelt viscera of gospel music with the rhythm and determination of R&B to create a new ...
Sinai in the book of Exodus. Many scholars accept the Two-Source Theory, that Matthew and Luke used the gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of Jesus' sayings called Q as sources.
It was also the first general audience to include a greeting and a summary of the pope's catechesis ... according to St. Luke's Gospel, is to accept the anointing of the Holy Spirit "to bring ...