Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day ... keeping watch over their flocks at night” (Luke 2:8). Further on the horizon ...

Christmas in Newtown arrived on the heels of over two dozen funerals. Makeshift memorial candles and holiday lights blurred together on the village green. Children buried. Dreams shattered. Too ...

As we enter the final week before Christmas, my thoughts turn to Bethlehem, its struggling people, and the shocking disregard for them displayed by many Christians in the West. This is not to say ...

Abib, a naughty irresponsible donkey, is purchased by Joseph to transport his wife, Mary, to Bethlehem for the birth of their baby. On the journey, Abib finds himself playing a vital role in the ...

Undoubtedly there will be that carol, ‘Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright’ – voices and silence, and both are powerful. "Earlier this year I was in Bethlehem, that place where the ...