Christmas was a compassionate caregiver, feeding, clothing and healing whoever crossed his path. Christmas was a liberal ...

The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong.

In light of international conflicts, a fraught presidential election season and other contemporary challenges, clergy across the Cedar Valley are preparing their Christmas sermons in hopes of ...

Pope Francis has urged the faithful during the traditional Christmas Mass to bring hope as "pilgrims of light into the darkness of the world." The head of the Catholic Church said in his Christmas Eve ...

Many of us have Christmas memories. My wife and I always remembered a certain Christmas Eve. It occurred in the early 1970s, a few years into the 50 we shared together. There wasn’t a Christmas Eve ...

The news stung like a hornet against bare skin. For thirteen years, my wife and I celebrated Christmas with our two children on Christmas day. We considered it a sacred tradition — and thought they ...

The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born in a manger to a Virgin far from home — and offer something new, memorable ...

We are huddled somewhere in a deserted corner of the night and can't even think anymore. We have become rough and hard, I would like to say red; for apart from our hatred and our constant restlessness ...

If there’s one word that’s core to Christmas, it's "peace." Yet we need to recognize that even the seemingly unarguable exhortation to strive for peace must not be treated as absolute law. There are ...