The feast of the Epiphany reminds us that the good news is for everyone of every age. Its proclamation can bring great joy or ...

The human trait of proclaiming good intentions but failing to follow through is ancient and universal. "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" appears in red ink in the Gospel of Matthew.

Described in the Gospel of Matthew as the celestial sign that led the Magi to the newborn Jesus, the star stands at the ...

Each year, our church celebrates this feast as a declaration that with Jesus’ birth we once again acknowledge the viable ...

True believers fall in love with the beauty of the story, which plays itself out in the heart, the only stage that truly ...

COMMENTARY: The first witnesses to the messianic birth are not the great and the good but the lowly shepherds.

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star of Bethlehem, he wrote that it should be “classified with the comets which ...

New research examines the theory that this biblical phenomenon was actually a comet, and subjects it to mathematical ...

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 ...

By: Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside ...