Christmas is so familiar that it is easy to miss how utterly unlike every other religious claim it truly is. The story is ...

Luke's Gospel tells the most-beloved version of the story of Jesus' birth to the virgin Mary, from the angel Gabriel's ...

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in today’s fractured world too.

Legends about Jesus’ early years circulated widely in the Middle Ages. Mary Dzon reflects on some of the stories.

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

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

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

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as ...

The unexplained years of Jesus’ life, between his youth and ministry, have inspired enduring theories of eastern travel. From ...

Reflecting on the true meaning of Christmas, I am struck by the paradoxes that surround us, nay that permeate our world, and ...

What do we really know about Jesus as a child? A look at the sparse Gospel accounts, the turbulent world of first-century ...