The actual man whom our modern Santa is based on, was St. Nicholas of Myra, sometimes called Nicholas the Wonderworker. The actual St. Nicholas is said to have been born to an affluent Greek-speaking ...

Prophet of God,” they said, “we are hungry.” God inspired Jesus to allow them to eat, so they dispersed among the wheat, rubbing it and eating. While they were eating, the owner of the field came up ...

The Gospel of Matthew claims that Jesus was born during the reign of Herod the Great, who upon hearing of his birth felt ...

One of the most cherished pieces is a nativity set I bought in Israel in 1983 during a year-long trip with a university ...

The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best ...

Young people are, distressingly, more anti-Semitic than older ­people – in Australia, in the US, and throughout the world.

Most of us have intuitive thoughts, where our inner voice says something bizarre. But being functional adults, we don’t let ...

The Middle Ages weren’t as dreary and desperate as you’d think, and peasants often had weeks of idle time during the holidays ...

That’s why Hanukkah is celebrated mainly as the holiday of LIGHTS!! That’s why Jesus was (supposedly) born on that day, as ...

Interview with Peter Saunders, the chief of The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Great Britain) and a suspended member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and ...

The celebration of the Nativity was not something that Christians did for the first few centuries of Christianity. Easter, ...