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 ...

The "Word" in John's Gospel has several meanings, and some of its meanings and messages are universal. Have a joyous, ...

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 ...

With her lavishly illustrated book, Lucca has given us the most rigorous critical analysis of the director’s work to date, ...

"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 ...

No story can match the Christmas story. Mary was just an ordinary girl but she was special in the eyes of God. She was someone God knew He could choose to enter the world as the baby Jesus. Mary and ...

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 ...

Could Jesus Christ have been born on 25 Kislev, the first night of Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — in 5 BC? It’s an ...

When a student in Oxford in the 1980s, I walked into a church bookshop and picked up a landscape-format book full of complex ...