The Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, but the book never explicitly says when the Son of God was born. Though many ...

Yet his time on Earth would be marked not only by his humble birth (celebrated ... which we celebrate at Easter. Christmas and Easter show us the story of this King, Jesus, who does not match ...

In many countries, Easter is still the day of days. But in America, we're all about Christmas -- divested, mostly, of its religious trappings.

The question is, why Christmas, so much more than Easter — the central holiday of the religion? All four gospels have the resurrection story. Only two feature the birth of Jesus. And even they ...

The story we all know by now unfolds in a series of vignettes that covers Jesus’ birth, his childhood excursion ... do 30 of them know about “A Christmas Carol?” And of those 30, how many ...

With his vivid creativity and infatuation with the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Walter had interrupted Dickens’ dramatic reading of “A Christmas Carol” to a live ...

Carols and hymns were sung, and the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion ... “For Christians, Christmas is a major celebration as it marks the birth of Jesus. Easter, on the other hand, is ...

So in the 4th century, they created a rival festival to mark Jesus' birth: Christmas. The Bible doesn't explicitly state the date on which Jesus was born, and many theologians place his birth in ...

The pools, which were fed by Gihon Spring, were a major part of the story of Jesus, specifically in the Gospel of John. Jesus is said to have healed a man who was blind from birth by sending him ...

For some devout Christians, the answer is simple: We have the Gospel stories because that is what ... Pagels considers the various accounts of Jesus’ birth. Curiously, the historical record ...

She asks whether Jesus’ often overlooked “tribal” roots in Judea and his family’s backstage role in the early church are keys to cracking his story wide open. “The Gospels are shining a ...