Another Christmas in the bag. Another round of wrapped boxes deconstructed. Another season saturated in the story of a baby born in a manger all those years ago. You probably heard at some point this ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' birth in their own world rather than in what we know of the first century. In ...

In about 178 AD, a pagan named Celsus wrote a scathing denouncement of Christianity, calling believers of Jesus Christ “the most uneducated and vulgar persons.” For a high-minded Greco-Roman scholar, ...

Fr. Rodrigues: What is historical is that Jesus was born. So obviously December 25 is not actually the historical date when ...

Every year, millions of people sing the beautiful carol Silent Night, with its line “all is calm, all is bright”. We all know ...

Scholars believe Jesus was born between 6 and 4 BCE in the town of Bethlehem, located in the modern-day West Bank. The Middle Eastern territory is located in what is now Palestine, though Israel has ...

Every Christmas, a storm of controversy ignites over the accurate date of Jesus’ birth. Fueled by sensationalist media and a public eager to speculate, these debates churn out myths and historical ...

Devotees visit a nativity scene displayed outside a church ahead of Christmas celebrations, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Dec. 12, 2023. (Photo: AFP) Didn’t Pope Benedict XVI start it ...

DEAR DR. GRAHAM: Why was Jesus born of a virgin? I know Mary was a very good person and all that, but couldn't she and Joseph have given birth to Jesus in the normal way? Or is the Bible's story about ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...