(RNS) — Each December, we hear a well-meant admonition: “Keep Christ in Christmas.” I affirm that plea with my whole heart. The season of Christ’s birth should not be swallowed up by anxiety about ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, on Wednesday, admonished Christians that Christmas should be a day filled with love, with appreciation of what God has done for mankind, days of goodwill to one’s ...

Taking Christmas seriously means recognizing that Jesus loves all, forebears all, forgives all and remains with all.

“I go wherever people’s hearts are hurting the most,” Dan Beazley told CNN in late September, as he rolled the cross around ...

Christmas reveals God's cosmic plan through Christ's incarnation, as Paul describes -- the pivotal moment when creation's ...

Nietzsche sought strength in the will to power, but the cross proclaims a deeper wisdom he could not hear — a word that ...

While there are many ancient texts focusing on Jesus as a baby and as a man, much less is known about him as a child. Here’s ...

As you read Luke chapter 2 today, there are obvious “big events” that stand out. Whether it be the pregnant Mary moving from Nazareth to Bethlehem, the birth itself, the ...

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

What can we give to our newborn Savior? Writer Mark Griswold suggests we offer all that we have, our very heart, battered as ...

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