According to the gospel of Luke, Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should take place, and each person would need ...

The Nativity story continued to expand within Christian devotional culture well after Francis’ death. In 1291, Pope Nicholas ...

Netflix’s new biopic about the mother of Christ fails to offer a clear vision of its subject.

Perhaps the closest synonym for these two ideas is “design”. But that term has been harnessed to a different kind of theology ...

Here, as in Luke 17:20, the Kingdom of God is said to ... The document itself comes from the fourth century.... As with all gospel text, with this one in particular, we have to remember that ...

In my book “True Confessions of a Retired Preacher,” not to be published anytime soon, if ever, I have considered including a ...

Motherhood is your highest calling.” At the time, this felt true—I’d left a career I loved to stay home with my child. Yet ...

Every year around Advent, Catholics are reminded of the story of the Nativity of Our Lord. Actually, for those keeping score, there are two stories of this in the Bible, which are often ...

This article explores the origins of the Nativity scene, St. Francis of Assisi's role in its creation, and its cultural and ...

Maybe it’s possible to have it both ways — to serve the poor while staging Christmas extravaganzas — but I struggle to ...

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and Last Judgement. But who wrote ...

But, into this common narrative outline, Matthew and Luke each insert extra ... On the basis of this text, however, scholars were able to reconstruct the Gospel of Thomas in Greek, the original ...