Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

In each of the synoptic Gospels, Our Lord tells his disciples -- including you and me -- to keep watch for his Second Coming.

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Last week, we looked in detail at the scientific implausibility of group hallucinations. That is, since hallucinations are personal mental events, groups of people can't hallucinate the same thing in ...

What an apocalyptic French novel about a migrant invasion reveals about the worldview of nationalist conservatives ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian ...

Musician, mother, widow: this moving account of an extraordinarily creative life details the highs and lows of walking the ...

We look at the social media influencer accused of rape and human trafficking, who was freed from Romania after courting Trump ...

The British author wrote six novels, but it's her second published book that has resonated the most in the 250 years since ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. By Sarah Weinman Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. By A.O. Scott Writing under a pseudonym ...