This Christmas I find myself wondering yet again about those Bethlehem shepherds. It’s possible, of course, that the Almighty chose these particular sheepherders as recipients of the angelic ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

The smallness of God in the Eucharist and in the manger is a scandal. The all-powerful One becomes so small that he can be ...

While Egypt served as a refuge, it is not the final destination of God's people. As Moses called God's children out of Egypt, ...

The angels left and the shepherds decided to go to Bethlehem. They found Mary and Joseph and saw the baby lying in the manger. The shepherds returned, praising God for all they had heard and seen.

The Christmas story is the world’s greatest news story. Indeed, the birth of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago is the ...

Upon hearing the good news, the shepherds immediately got up, left their flocks and shouted, “Let us now go to Bethlehem...,” and walked together to find the birthplace of Jesus. They found ...

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” ...