Christmas is about the birth of Jesus. Easter is about what He was born ... And that is, you know, the story of Christ coming to be this pure, part-man, part-God being who would be sacrificed ...

The opening chapters of Matthew and Luke introduce us to Jesus as the long-awaited Messiah, conceived by the Holy Spirit and ...

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 ...

In his Christmas message, Archbishop of Goa and Daman Fr Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao on Tuesday said in a world often overshadowed by war, division and suffering, the birth of Jesus Christ is the ...

Given the nature of government then and now, it is painfully evident that whether Jesus had been born in our modern age or ...

Could Jesus Christ have been born on 25 Kislev, the first night of Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — in 5 BC? It’s an ...

This point is reinforced in the Bible again and again, and the narratives about Jesus’ birth are pretty blatant about it. The canonical gospels include only two stories of the nativity, ...

The Christmas story can be found in Luke 2:1-20 (reprinted from the King James Version): 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world ...

Noting such diverse evidence, I thought that these stories sounded plausible in a way I had never imagined. The virgin birth is just one miracle among many in the Gospels. Jesus walked on water.

But the story itself is a bit of a "Rashomon." Matthew and Luke tell it differently. The other two gospelers, Mark and John, don't tell it at all. "I would say maybe our modern assumptions about Jesus ...

When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the ...