Layered beneath the familiar narrative are cultural, historical, and theological details that reveal just how intentional God ...

Both infancy narratives build upon the memories of historical events and contain useful historical data. However, readers today should not assume that everything in the narratives is certain ...

Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel”. The question that the line re-asks and re-asks is not new, however: what is good about Christmas? It is: what is ...

Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the ...

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born. Sacred originsWith its shepherds and wise ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

Here are seven often-missed details in the Nativity story — each one adding new richness to our understanding of Christmas.

During Christmas, we celebrate a phenomenon theologians call the incarnation. In scientific terms, the birth of Jesus Christ was a trans-dimensional dislocation; the Son of God stepped from the ...

Fresco Dionysiou Monastery, Athos. Mid. XVI century. Try to imagine not knowing who your father is. And then, imagine learning that your father is the one who condemned your life to bondage—not ...

Why do we still celebrate the birth of Jesus 2,000 years later? Let’s take it one step further: Why has humanity held out this event as supremely important for even thousands of years before that?