Those beautiful white and gold angels you see on Christmas trees were originally monsters. At least, that is the claim made by scholar Esther Hamori in her book God’s Monsters. Hamori writes that ...

Since Renaissance times, churches have tended to depict angels as blonde white kids with fluffy wings, but no such characters ...

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Angels are typically pictured to be the holier-than-thou servants of God adorned with cherubic faces and fluffy wings, but some books in the Bible paint a vastly different — and much scarier ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It was during the pandemic when the Rev. Kira Austin-Young and her puppet-maker husband, Michael Schupbach, were going a little stir-crazy that they came up with the idea.

There were shepherds taking care of their flocks at night. An angel appeared to them and told them not to be afraid as he brought good news, “This very day in David’s town your saviour was ...