Across religious and spiritual traditions, the question of why humans are born after nine months has never been treated as a ...

Before we turn the calendar, I want to highlight a few things we explored together in 2025, and reveal my new word for 2026.

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central ...

For those who follow Jesus, Christmas is not merely a celebration, it is a call to solidarity with the vulnerable among us, ...

The feast of St. John the Evangelist, an apostole who played a very prominent role in many of the New Testament narratives, ...

Yunju Temple’s millennia-old Fangshan stone scriptures are preserved and revitalized through global cooperation, digital technology and cultural innovation.

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical ...

So, is President Trump going to heaven? That question, rightly understood, is above any columnist’s pay grade. “Judge not, that you be not judged.” What can be said — about him and about all of us — ...

Christmas is a time when many families gather and celebrate being together one more time before the year ends.

This December marks the 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a half-hour television special that did something ...

The one thing that antisemites and the ethno-narcissists, the neocon-ethno-narcissists have in common is all they talk or think about is the Jews. They're very sort of similar in that way.