The patient perseverance, the waiting and longing, of these friends in Matanzas is an Advent parable, Ken Sehested says.

For a holiday centered on the Prince of Peace, a lot of folks spend an extraordinary amount of time feeling threatened.

Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world,” ...

I eat an orange every Christmas. It is my Cantwell Christmas tradition. It reminds me of extravagant love and hope. An orange ...

All that antisemitic history was rooted in the tragic error of what I call “Christian onlyism,” Chuck Poole says ...

Laughter filled the room. For a few minutes, the world narrowed to something simple and generous: shared joy, freely offered.

Advent teaches us how to live inside a promise that hasn’t yet finished unfolding, Jason Edwards says this season.

Decades ago, the notion that a store in predominately Jewish West Jerusalem would conspicuously sell Christmas-themed merchandise would have caused discomfort, perhaps even outrage, especially among ...

At Christmas, the Hephzibah House on the Upper West Side looks like something out of a movie. The first level of the historic ...

Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial ...

A majority of the individuals being violently detained have followed the rules laid out by government and should not be ...

The University of Oklahoma is the latest to debase itself in deference to Trump and evangelical Christians’ claims of ...