How Christians are celebrating the holiday in the town of Jesus’ birth—and across the broader Middle East.

A holiday spent in grief helped me to take Christ’s coming more seriously.

How Christ’s death and resurrection speak to the particular suffering of African Americans.

Why this misperception poses a stumbling block to the spread of the gospel.

Why do we feel such a palpable sense of spiritual relief when the problem is with the body rather than the mind?

Maintaining a balance between gathering and scattering is the key to avoiding spiritual pneumonia.

Why Christians erupt in song, even when hope seems lost.

Pastors who rush in with the wrong treatment court spiritual disaster.

As a Middle Easterner, I can't read the Bible without a smile of recognition crawling across my face.

Hiding from God (and neighbor) is dehumanizing, but honest prayer and confession bring healing and freedom.

I'm only my truest self when I'm playing the role of disciple.

In the Lord’s economy, nothing is wasted—not even rotten fruit.

When beloved congregants turned on me, who could I trust for advice?

I used to be repulsed by Ephesians 5. Then I learned to see Paul’s instructions through a gospel lens.

When God announced the birth of Christ to sweaty, uncouth shepherds, he signaled something important about the kind of Messiah he was sending.

Students and teachers alike need to remember the difference between knowing theology and knowing God.

The key to creativity is worship and prayer.

Suffering and ministry turmoil left me devastated. Jesus met me there.

The pre-Christendom church managed to avoid both isolationism and accommodationism. Their model gives us a map for post-Christendom challenges.