The 12 days of Christmas tell of martyrdom, pain, and sacrifice as much as life, joy, and salvation. This is no accident.

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 ...

The journey through Advent teaches us that we need Jesus. The Light of the World is coming to set the captive free. As ...

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.

Tightening restrictions on Indian Christians, the testimony of a president’s daughter, and thoughts on when pastors should ...

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 ...