When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

“And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered” (Luke 2:6). That Jesus ...

Both infancy narratives build upon the memories of historical events and contain useful historical data. However, readers today should not assume that everything in the narratives is certain ...

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born. Sacred originsWith its shepherds and wise ...

During Christmas, we celebrate a phenomenon theologians call the incarnation. In scientific terms, the birth of Jesus Christ was a trans-dimensional dislocation; the Son of God stepped from the ...

The Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament recounts that magi from the East, following a star foretelling the birth of the ...

Fresco Dionysiou Monastery, Athos. Mid. XVI century. Try to imagine not knowing who your father is. And then, imagine learning that your father is the one who condemned your life to bondage—not ...

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The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation that ...

Why do we still celebrate the birth of Jesus 2,000 years later? Let’s take it one step further: Why has humanity held out this event as supremely important for even thousands of years before that?