Dallas woman Jennifer Houghton, who posts under the handle TurtleCreekLane, is known for her extravagant holiday displays.

None of this, of course, contributes to a deepening of people’s familiarity with the figure for whom the occasion is named.

No one ever sat me down and said, “Pretend you have it all together.” Yet the jagged edge of that unspoken line has snagged me more than once. It comes from within, sparked again and again by the bad ...

The mind easily conjures the little shelter, a baby in the manger, Mother Mary, Father Joseph, shepherds, sheep, camels, and wisemen. “I don’t have a lot of places to sit right now,” laughs Missy ...

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 ...

With the Vatican's Nativity scene and huge Christmas tree glittering in the Roman sun behind him, David Henrie reflected on ...

Everyone from the Muppets to Bill Murray has taken a crack at Charles Dickens' classic tale of Christmastime redemption.

The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best ...

The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas ...

God becomes flesh, and God grants us knowledge of himself. In Bethlehem, the immortal Creator of all is manifest in a mortal creature. The Lord shows himself forth in all his works, but in the ...

When, in late 2021, I heard the UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio, it truly felt like a heaven-sent gift of musical and vocal splendour after the long famine of our lockdown ...

Christmas is the most celebrated day of the year. But we sometimes forget the holiday’s fascinating milestones.