Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive ...

Happily, this has a flip side: Just as pain will now flow into our lives more freely and more deeply, so too will meaning and ...

The tragedy of making up a forever war on Christmas to score political points isn’t that it’s been needlessly divisive. It’s ...

John is clear: “Carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull” (John 19:17). Does that exclude Simeon’s later help? No. But it emphasizes that Jesus is ...

Bishops and religious leaders from across the West Midlands have spoken of their hopes for the future, the need for calm amid ...

Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. that we may ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian mythology But what do the ...

The Chosen” television series tells some of the well-known biblical stories about Christ and his disciples—and weaves into ...

The divine child cannot arrive without the Spirit-filled female body: the birth canal, the vagina, the vulva. The rose.

By Renee Scheidt If you’re like me, you’ve been running all over town and spending hours online, shopping for the perfect Christmas gifts. Giving presents to loved ones is a large part of our ...

A recent poll found that Americans’ belief in the existence of a “War on Christmas” has fallen dramatically since 2022, to 23 percent. Peace on earth and mercy mild!