A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version ...

A NASA astronomer has claimed the famous star of Bethlehem was likely a known interstellar object, citing ancient Chinese ...

Europe’s war on speech and Hollywood’s corporate implosion signal the end of an era and (perhaps) the beginning of another.

Words that once spoke of ancient hope now land in a world shaped by war and grief. What does it mean to sing “Israel” in ...

The Christmas traditions we love, trees, stockings, carols, plum cake, didn’t start the way we think. Their surprising ...

"Religious identity does not absolve a student from doing the work, completing the assignment," Greg Garrett says.

This worldview had the effect of promoting a new kind of antisemitism: hatred of Israel, not Jews. It was a very ...

The letter “The real Christmas story” (Dec. 2, TribLive) claims Christ’s birthdate is unknown; I agree. However, our views then diverge. Roman periodic censuses were used for tax, military and ...

Columnist Sid Salter writes that as the penny fades from circulation, he wonders if something else is slipping away too: a ...

Little Simz delivers a primal spiritual manifesto on "Flood" - tribal drums, post-punk bass, and commandments for survival ...