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Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

This Sunday's lectionary reading for Advent 4 in Year A is Matt 1.18–25. It is a short reading, but laden with significance ...

Based on the Greco-Roman model of celebrating a military triumph, Hanukkah was instituted in 164 B.C. to celebrate the ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

A new book traces the footsteps of Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem for nearly a millennium before the Crusades, and the path ...