ON Dec. 25, many people worldwide celebrated Christmas to commemorate the birthday of the Lord Jesus Christ. With the power ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

Luke's Gospel tells the most-beloved version of the story of Jesus' birth to the virgin Mary, from the angel Gabriel's ...

Those who study the Bible will generally admit that those lists, such as the census rolls in the book of Numbers, are the ...

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 star is mentioned twice, and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of our nation's most beloved seasonal traditions. Experts weigh in on what it took for Charles M. Schulz to keep the Gospel reading in the script — and why it ...

The opening chapters of Matthew and Luke introduce us to Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah, conceived by the Holy Spirit and ...

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 ...

The new Pacific Press adult devotional book for 2025, Do Not Be Afraid, offers daily encouragement for those seeking peace in ...

Was there really a Roman census at the time of Jesus' birth, or is this detail in the Gospel of Luke historically inaccurate?