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.

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

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 ...

Twenty people were attending the Baptist church on a Sunday in July when a missile exploded only 500 yards away. Most judged ...

Covering tragedy, controversy, and culinary signs of hope, here is a chronological survey of Christian news from the region.

A number of the leaders whose passings we witnessed in 2024 spent their lives calling evangelicals to contend. Some wanted ...

This second route to joy is demonstrated in the prayer of another Old Testament prophet, Habakkuk. In response to his ...