The 12 days of Christmas tell of martyrdom, pain, and sacrifice as much as life, joy, and salvation. This is no accident.

Steve Cuss considers God’s presence and hospitality in Luke 2. Whether our holidays are snowy or sunny—as they are for Steve Cuss as he records from Perth, Australia—the same thing is true ...

How to answer our anxiety this Christmas by letting our hearts get broken.

I t is half-a-century since Peter Taylor Forsyth gave the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale in 1907 and three dozen years since his death in 1921 at the age of seventy-three. Of the forty-five years ...

Genesis 12–50, one of the most familiar parts of the Old Testament, is also one of the least understood. These chapters center on the lives of Abraham and two of his descendants, Jacob and Joseph.

For Marcos Witt, writing Christmas music is about more than capturing seasonal sentimentality or warm memories. It’s about ...

Over against the Christian faith in a personal God, who is Creator and Redeemer, stands the Buddhist denial of such a Deity. Buddhists often call themselves atheists, though at least in Mahayana ...

The internal evidence is stronger. The writer claims at the outset to be “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ” (1:1). He announces that the time has come for him “to put ...

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

Holidays have an uncanny way of exposing how messy our lives really are. The juggle of expectations from different family ...

Santa Claus, the modern icon of Christmas, is derived from traditions associated with Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop ...

Global Methodist bishop John Pena Auta is heading home to Nigeria with an overwhelming assignment. He has to find the words ...