People gathered Tuesday night at Murray Baptist Church for a community candlelight Christmas Eve Service to enjoy music, a ...

“Prayer is a big part of Advent. It’s a way to grow closer to God, especially with intentionality during this season,” Frei ...

While Jews light their Menorahs during the eight days of Hanukkah, Christians usually light their Advent candles over four weeks, one per week, during the time leading up to Christmas as “part of the ...

As the season of Advent draws to a close, four local clergy have offered their perspectives of the importance of Advent as it ...

Lighting Christmas candles is an age-old tradition that has great religious significance all across the globe.

Advent symbolizes the church’s present situation in these “last days,” according to scripture, as God’s people wait for the return of Christ. During the holiday, the church looks back upon ...

The birth of Jesus at Christmas is all about hope, peace, joy and love, writes Lauren Green of Fox News this holiday season — here's why this matters and the origin stories of each.

The fourth Advent candle, the candle of love, celebrates God’s love coming to earth in the flesh in the form of the birth of ...

In the Gospels, Mary and Joseph go to Bethlehem not by choice but because of a Roman-imposed census as the empire clamped ...

A warm flame brightens the winter darkness — the light comes from a humble candle in the window of an Irish home. It is ...

Within the wreath’s branches, four candles representing the four weeks of Advent are inserted, with one lit on each of the four Sundays before Christmas. Three candles are purple and one is rose ...