That little baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying so cutely in the manger is the biggest trouble maker in world history, and the shocking claims that Christianity makes about who he is and what he means irritate and antagonize people all over the world.

Make it a new year’s resolution to catch up with the magazine’s must-read essays of 2014.

Bret Stephens’s new book draws on the landmark theory of urban crime and disorder to conjure a middle way between interventionism and isolationism in U.S. foreign policy.

Theists and atheists are different. While both groups think life means something, they understand that meaning in different ways.

Why do Christians and so many other people believe in an invisible ruler and creator of the universe—and then how does the Christian idea of God differ from the others?

But we shouldn’t get complacent—every iteration of jihadism has proved more competent on this score than the last.

The Gospels make a point of saying that Jesus was born of a virgin, but there is more to the story than the absence of a biological father.

The canal may never be finished, but it could still bring much-need investment to the country.

The specifically Christian idea of the Virgin Birth is one of the most controversial and confusing theological concepts around, and a Yuletide blog which didn’t take on the topic wouldn’t be doing its job.

Vladimir Putin bought the French people a Christmas tree, even as he deepens ties with Marine Le Pen’s National Front.