After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

Provocation like that isn’t my thing, but the justification from the Archdiocese of Boston was even worse: promising people ...

Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular classical compositions played at the holidays. Filled with biblical passages and ...

A new astronomical study is reviving debate over one of the Bible’s most enduring mysteries. For centuries, the Star of ...

One answer, offered by, among others, the late Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, is that one of Hanukkah’s eight days commemorates the ...