If you are like me, you dread one essential part of Christmas celebrations: gift-giving. My problems start with shopping. To give, you have to shop, but for me shopping is disturbingly disorienting, ...

Their number was fixed at three. (Scripture spells out the number of gifts they brought but not the number of magi.) Eventually they were elevated to royalty. By the 15th century, art was ...

“The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men — who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were ...