The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong.
The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born in a manger to a Virgin far from home — and offer something new, memorable ...
The news stung like a hornet against bare skin. For thirteen years, my wife and I celebrated Christmas with our two children on Christmas day. We considered it a sacred tradition — and thought they ...
In light of international conflicts, a fraught presidential election season and other contemporary challenges, clergy across the Cedar Valley are preparing their Christmas sermons in hopes of ...
Many of us have Christmas memories. My wife and I always remembered a certain Christmas Eve. It occurred in the early 1970s, a few years into the 50 we shared together. There wasn’t a Christmas Eve ...
Pope Francis has urged the faithful during the traditional Christmas Mass to bring hope as "pilgrims of light into the darkness of the world." The head of the Catholic Church said in his Christmas Eve ...
If there’s one word that’s core to Christmas, it's "peace." Yet we need to recognize that even the seemingly unarguable exhortation to strive for peace must not be treated as absolute law. There are ...
"She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them." -- Luke 2:7 (NLT) The holiday season ...
Between Kermit the Frog’s antics and the christening of a new National Christmas Tree Thursday night, you may have missed the moment President Obama preached on immigration reform. And unlike his ...
The Bishop of Newcastle has branded the Archbishop of York's Christmas Day sermon "empty words" after he said the Church of England needs to "kneel in penitence" and "be changed". Responding to the ...
We are huddled somewhere in a deserted corner of the night and can't even think anymore. We have become rough and hard, I would like to say red; for apart from our hatred and our constant restlessness ...