Christmas is important to Christians because from their point of view the Baby Jesus is the meaning of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas is the meaning of life.

History turned a corner with the birth of Jesus Christ, and while the written reports of that event don’t tell…

If we leave religion out of our national conversation, we end up with a vapid conversation that doesn’t address the…

To get any insight at all into what Jesus’ childhood and upbringing were like, you have to do something that…

The flawed human race, trapped in a cycle of cascading pain and wrong, is what and who God is bound…

The Christmas story suggests that we can somehow try to be loyal members of our nations, our families, our tribes—and…

Now it gets tough. Yesterday’s post at the Yule Blog looked at what divides Christians and other theists from atheists; today…

Yesterday, the Yule Blog featured an essay about how theists and atheists are not all that different from each other;…

Happy fifth day of Christmas, and welcome back to the 2023-2024 Yule Blog, where we aim to keep the holiday…