Attebury mentioned King’s book “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s ‘Messiah,’” and his ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

Because once Christianity lets go of Israel, it loses the very plot it believes it’s telling. From the start, I never bought ...

Father Tom Hartman and I created an annual winter custom that sharpened our interfaith instincts. Tommy wrote the Hanukkah ...

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

“Yehudah’s siring of Peretz reflected how ‘the cure preceded the blow.’ Before the first power to subjugate the Jews [Pharaoh ...

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

In 1984, Frankie Goes to Hollywood released a reverent nativity ballad that revealed how myth, music and Christmas still ...

One Sunday morning, Catherine hurried upstairs to the church balcony. Normally, she likes the first floor, but she was late that morning.