Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight ...

Listen, my friends, and you will hear a Christmas story that has no peer. It's better than Grinches and Scrooges and elves; it's better than any Christmas book on your shelves. It's an ancient story ...

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 ...

Christmas stories have a way of slowing everything down. The lights are on, the house smells like something sweet in the oven, and for a few minutes, no one’s rushing anywhere. That’s usually when a ...

December is filled with opportunities to make magical memories, particularly for families with young children. Christmas commands a lot of thought and attention, and parents know such efforts are ...

The Washington, D.C., my sisters and I grew up in was known as Chocolate City for good reason. As Black children in the city then, we were a majority. We sauntered from school to store to home to ...