Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little ...

We are in the season of Advent. Advent leads us to the beautiful culmination of Christmas, where we celebrate the incarnation ...

Christians believe that Jesus "died for our sins." To my mind, that is nonsense. Jesus died because of the sins of the people of his time, not for the sins of the people of all time. Even so, given ...

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Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

Pope Francis marked the day after Christmas by noting Christians are still being persecuted for their faith, as the Church ...

It’s a simple question with a complicated answer, but that answer often begins with a particularly seductive temptation, one ...

When Jesus ascended, the angel told the witnesses, "[Jesus] will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11). Paul referred to "the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ ...

As he ascended into heaven the angels told the disciples, “Why do you stand here gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus shall come again in like manner.” From that day forward the disciples ...