Listen, my friends, and you will hear a Christmas story that has no peer. It's better than Grinches and Scrooges and elves; it's better than any Christmas book on your shelves. It's an ancient story ...

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 lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight ...

Mary points to Jesus — noticeably so, as we celebrate the patroness of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Advent. This classic story, released again for a new generation of readers, retells the ...

In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

This children’s Christmas book paints baby Jesus in a new (or rather ancient) light. In 2010 I visited the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and was struck by how different ethnic groups ...

King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s heard the Christmas story. King of Judea when Jesus of Nazareth was born, the ruler attempts to find and kill the baby after hearing that the “King of ...