In the New Year, we must view our time through a divine lens.

Composed during World War I, “Shchedryk” folk song has survived the Nazi, communist, and now commercial eras to remind and revive the ties of hearth and home.

Because of Jesus, we are not like those who grieve without hope this holiday season.

How the fact of the Incarnation fulfills the hopes of every culture.

5 questions about the global icon of Mary you see every Christmas.

Herod’s massacre of the innocents in Matthew 2 challenges us to participate in the “groans” of God’s world.

Breaking with tradition, local leaders grant permission to move celebrations from January 7 to December 25, continuing separation from Russia.

Answering Stephen Wolfe’s arguments for blood, soil, and sedition.

Remembering a Bible smuggler, a speechwriter, a queen, and others.

Heresies, harassment, and Her Majesty’s death: Here are the stories Christians engaged with this year.

The Christian conversion stories that CT readers shared most.

Innovation, evangelism, and other developments worth celebrating over the past year.

From abortion and climate change to the SBC’s reckoning on abuse, these episodes drew the most attention.

A new song highlights a growing interest outside the Egyptian church in reviving an ancient language of the Christian world.

Theologians and church leaders around the region share how December 25 is perceived in their contexts.

Q&A with religious studies scholar Eric Vanden Eykel on the history, mystery, memes, and meaning of the wise men in the Book of Matthew.

Local leaders weigh in on the Muslim-majority nation’s new penal code and whether governments should legislate morality.

In the story of the Incarnation, symbols of death and danger remind us of God’s renewal.

After losing my father as a child, I learned to see the Incarnation as my true lineage.