While “What Child Is This?” is an explicitly Christmas song, the tune speaks to the mystery of identity and purpose—questions ...

Enjoy these weeks when we prepare our hearts for the celebration of Christ’s birth, which culminates on Christmas.

At a section of border fence in San Diego on Saturday, where dozens of people had gathered to mark Mary and Joseph’s search ...

Sometimes during Advent as a child, I tried to imagine how Mary felt in the time leading up to Christ’s birth. How she may ...

In this way the Scriptural prophecy that the coming Messiah was to be born in Bethlehem was fulfilled. God was at work several years before the birth of Jesus to prepare the way for His coming.

As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, many Christian communities around the world prepare to enter the sacred season of Advent. This four-week period leading up to Christmas is not only a ...

A keffiyeh-wrapped baby Jesus sparks a global conversation about faith, politics, and justice, revealing deep tensions and ...

It already symbolized Christ’s final victory over Evil, the cup held up triumphantly. A cultivation of taste is needed, a kind of divine oenology: behind the bitterness, to sense the sweetness ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to reconcile ...

For many people who observe Christian traditions, Advent is a special season that begins on Dec. 1 and lasts until Dec. 24, leading up to the celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth at Christmas. As the ...