Many Christians worry that writing “Xmas” crosses Christ out of Christmas, but the story of the X is an ancient, deeply ...

AT THIS TIME of year, scores of millions of people go to church. Even sheep who have strayed from the Lord’s flock often find ...

The Apostle Paul instructed the saints in Ephesus, "Find out what pleases the Lord" (Galatians 5:24). The Ten Commandments ...

Many Christians in the West have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith, according to New Testament scholar N T Wright ...

“I saw a Great White Throne and the One Enthroned. Nothing could stand before or against the Presence, nothing in Heaven, ...

The great Cistercian monk St Bernard of Clairvaux spoke of Advent in three distinct senses, and Christian writers and sermons ...

Because once Christianity lets go of Israel, it loses the very plot it believes it’s telling. From the start, I never bought ...

Let the annals of this country show it was the murder of a Jewish couple on the first night of Hanukkah that showed how ...

The word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, ...

Christian Zionists say that Jews have a right to a homeland, and that this right is supported by the Bible. They say this ...

In their absence (for now, before the Machine God is unveiled or the U.F.O.s descend), the reasonable religious conclusion ...

Christmas is often imagined as beginning in Bethlehem, with shepherds, angels, and a child laid in a manger. Yet the Christian confession insists that Christmas did not erupt suddenly into history; it ...