When the liturgy does not have the courage to confront ugly yet natural human impulses, art can provide a cultural space for ...

But the truth is that this year, when the eight days of Chanukah and the season from Christmas to New Year almost entirely overlap, I find comfort in the thought that we are lighting candles together, ...

As we’ve worked through Psalm 80 in this series, it seems clear that this Psalm helps us to learn more than we otherwise ...

Barbara said a strange feeling of concern and guilt washed over her and later that evening she began to experience sorrow and ...

“Silent Night” depictions of Christ’s birth are unrealistic, as plastic as decorations that appear on lawns every December, ...

How a contentious friendship between political rivals led to the creation of a classic Christmas anthem of hope.

The world's strife is no longer distant from us. A grinding war in Europe has cost thousands of lives as it approaches the ...

From the founding of the Southern British colonies in 1606. ... These beliefs continue to influence the contemporary South." ...

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian mythology But what do the ...

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

Sotheby’s said the final price exceeded the presale estimate and followed more than 10 minutes of “intense bidding” during ...

When you think of Jesus, what image comes to mind? Is He a baby in a manger, a man on a cross, the King of heaven? What if ...