The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled ...

The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled ...

My wife and I have a variety of nativity scenes on display in our home. But how accurately do they recreate the birth of Jesus? For instance, our nativity scenes depict Jesus as being born in a stable ...

“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 shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the ...

As many Americans prepare for the holidays with the hustle and bustle of sending cards, going shopping and taking kids to see Santa Claus, it can be easy to forget the true meaning of Christmas. In a ...

At Christmas, Christians look back in time to the birth of Jesus long ago, but we also are meant to examine ourselves intently at the present moment when that same Jesus endeavors to be born in our ...

That Christ was born in Bethlehem is the unequivocal claim of Scripture (Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1; Luke 2:15). But where exactly was Christ born? The countless nativity scenes displayed in December may ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

NAZARETH, Pa. - A Living Nativity in Nazareth, Northampton County, recreates the night Jesus Christ was born in a stable. It was held outside the Moravian Hall Square life-care community Friday ...