Each year, this day marks our Savior’s birth as a human child revered by kings and shepherds. This day ushers divine imagination into our reality.

Through tinsel-coated commercials and gripping seasonal stories, the world’s message is clear: the true magic of Christmas is held by children. But is it true?

Christ entered a dark world. Not the inner-city darkness that fills a room with faint beams of streetlights and occasional headlights flashing as vehicles pass. He entered darkness that you can feel.

He didn’t come when we were strong. While we were still misfits, Christ came to love us.

A life of thanksgiving is available to every one of us. In our consumeristic culture, it will take radical heart change and refocusing our attention, but God is able to do above and beyond all that we can think or ask. But we must ask.

In this excerpt from A Light Has Dawned Meditations on Advent and Christmas (Best of Christianity Today) by Lexham Press, Elisabeth Elliot writes about the mysterious gift of the Incarnation of Christ.

David Mathis considers that joy might be underselling the true glory of Christmas.

On the first week of Advent, Barbara Reaoch gives us some diagnostic questions to discern our Christmas traditions.

Does anyone see me? The question is universal. Christianity's answer is found in Christmas, writes Jen Oshman.

We usually think about Mary’s labor at Christmas. But though Jesus was being born, he and all creation had been in birth pains for thousands of years.

Daniel Darling shares how the characters of Christmas help us to locate ourselves—and find hope—in the Christmas story.