As we reflect on what we so casually refer to as Good Friday, we are called to remember and reflect on the significance of Jesus’ death, which itself has a contested meaning in the Church. Some of the ...

Years ago, in a literature course that I taught at a community college, I opened a discussion of the short story chapter with the first reading in the classic anthology Structure, Sound, and Sense, ...

The Bible portrays Mary Magdalene as one of Jesus Christ's most trusted disciples — and one of the few present at his ...

Christians around the world almost universally agree that Jesus existed But some claim Jesus was no more than a myth created for a "teaching story" Timothy Freke was flipping through an old academic ...

A number of years back, I heard something that changed my whole perspective on the gospels in the New Testament. The biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan was speaking about the narratives of the life ...

Mary, mother of Jesus, was a first-century Jewish teenager. Her real life differs sharply from her image. The post The Real Story of Mary, Mother of Jesus, Is Not What We Were Taught appeared first on ...

Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight ...

A young man once told me that he had seen the face of Jesus in the trunk of a chestnut tree, the bark moving as if it were flesh. An older woman told me that Christ had appeared to her in the ...

JESUS CALLING devotional and podcast’s ‘Stories of Prayer’ interview series invites guests from the entertainment, music, and literature ...

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