As Christmas approaches, a look at Blue Christmas and the importance of honoring grief, absence and quiet hope.

St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church held its Blue Christmas service last week. For more than a decade, this mid-December gathering in Santa Monica, Calif., has been a time to acknowledge holiday ...

Christmas is due to arrive without lights and without warmth, burdened by the memory of a war that has not truly ended. For ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — There are no ornaments on Sandy Husari Battikha’s Christmas tree. Only a small Nativity scene sits under its barren boughs. Battikha, a Palestinian Christian, said she didn’t have ...

Let me begin with an animal, because Christmas make more sense when we stop pretending we are above the rest of creation, or ...

Because of Jesus, we are not like those who grieve without hope this holiday season. Christmas has always been the most special day of the year for my family. We enjoy New Year’s Day, Easter, and ...