Christmas will still afford the best opportunities for people to visit our churches, even if it is online. So what do we do when they come or watch? How can we connect them to Christ? I still believe ...

More than a semi-annual crack at irregular churchgoers, the Christmas sermon has traditionally invited us to worship and wonder. Since Christians began celebrating Christ’s birth, preachers have given ...

(RNS) — At Christmas, Christians herald a leader who will rule with truth and grace; this is good news, as the world has precious little of either. Belief that Jesus is this leader gives hope to all ...

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Rev. William O'Toole searched for real-life stories he could use in his Christmas homily. These stories, he said, can help people understand the Christmas ...

For weeks, pastors and priests have been hard at work polishingwhat will be perhaps their best-attended sermon of the year. Andwhile a sermon can be purchased these days on the Web for less than$10, ...

As I was finishing Steven Waldman's book on religious liberty and a re-read of H. Richard Niebuhr's magnificent Christ and Culture, three books for review arrived at about the same time, all of them ...

Bishop Larry Shaver wasn’t planning on presiding over another Christmas Eve midnight Mass three years ago at the Anglican Church of St. Andrew the Evangelist. Shaver was 80 and recovering from a ...

It's dark this time of year. Dark, in terms of daylight. Dark, perhaps, in other ways as well. "A time when want is keenly felt, and abundance rejoices," as Dickens says in "A Christmas Carol." Start ...