A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

When Christ failed to make a second earthly appearance on May 21, 2011, it probably came as a surprise to few — would-be prophet Harold Camping, the Biblical number-cruncher who predicted that date as ...

The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation that ...

This is the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity, aimed at bridging America’s God gulf. Previously, I’ve spoken with the Rev. Timothy Keller, President Jimmy Carter, the ...

Over the centuries, many people have asked: “What did Jesus look like?” A new documentary attempts to answer this question. “The Face of Jesus” examines two acheiropoietic images of Christ — the ...

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 ...