Members of the Ruskin United Methodist Church youth group gave the community an early Christmas greeting as a gesture of peace and goodwill at a Living Nativity on Dec. 20. ...more

December 31, 2008

Tippecanoe County officials may ban manger scenes from the courthouse lawn, but they can't stop the baby Jesus from appearing in the back of a pickup. ...more

December 16, 2008

When baby Jesus disappeared last year from a Nativity scene on the lawn of a Palm Beach County community center, village officials didn't follow a star to locate him. ...more

December 11, 2008

Religious and secular decorations alike get vandalized or stolen during the holiday season, but thanks to modern technology it is becoming a lot easier to prevent or resolve holiday heists. ...more

December 11, 2008

Giving up on old-fashioned padlocks and trust, a number of churches, synagogues, governments and ordinary citizens are turning to technology to protect holiday displays from pranks or prejudice. ...more

December 10, 2008

While many Christmas decorations went back into their boxes with the arrival of the new year, hundreds of people in Wimauma were not done celebrating the holidays. ...more

January 12, 2008

Just as Joseph and Mary traveled a long distance to get to Bethlehem, so did Andy and Lindsay Gregg, one of the couples who played Joseph and Mary in this year's Kings Avenue Baptist Church's re-enactment, "Walk Through Bethlehem." ...more

December 26, 2007

Just as Joseph and Mary of the Christmas story traveled a long distance to get to Bethlehem, so did Andy and Lindsay Gregg, one of the couples who played Joseph and Mary this year in the Kings Avenue Baptist Church's re-enactment called "Walk Through Bethlehem." ...more

December 26, 2007

On Thanksgiving Day 2007, Bradely Priebe crawled out a window of his parents' apartment three stories above Manhattan's streets. The 14-month-old landed on a roof, not breaking a single bone. His mother, Anna Priebe, said, "It's a miracle." ...more

December 25, 2007

The Christmas story is seen most often as a story of the young — the birth of the baby, Jesus, in a Bethlehem stable; the role of his virginal teenage mother, Mary; the puzzled but accepting attitude of his earthly father, a youthful carpenter named Joseph; the involvement of the worshiping shepherds, whose job was for young men (as in the Biblical accounts of Joseph and his brothers or the young David and others). ...more

December 24, 2007