Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope your holiday sparkle season has been filled with the joy of parties, lights, overindulging, and maxing out your credit cards. Isn't that what Christmas is all about?

There are three well-known accounts of Christmas in the New Testament. We have St. John’s austerely metaphysical version ("The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."). And we have the more narratively ...

The exact date of Jesus's birth is unknown, though it is estimated to have been in the spring between 6 and 4 B.C. Christians began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in the 4th century, possibly to ...