What do we really know about Jesus as a child? A look at the sparse Gospel accounts, the turbulent world of first-century ...

While there are many ancient texts focusing on Jesus as a baby and as a man, much less is known about him as a child. Here’s ...

Upstate New York in the early nineteenth century was known as the “Burned-Over District,” on account of the wildfires of religious enthusiasm that regularly swept through the area. The revivals came ...

An Amsterdam publishing house said Wednesday it will release a biography of Jesus written by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven is best known as the director of blockbuster films including "Basic ...

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 ...

Since the Enlightenment, the Gospel stories about the life of Jesus have been in doubt. Intellectuals then as now asked: “What makes the stories of the New Testament any more historically probable ...

Even C. S. Lewis was skeptical of searches for the "historical Jesus." And why not? Even before Albert Schweitzer published his The Quest of the Historical Jesus in 1906, many Christians bemoaned such ...

Biblical drama. Starring Diogo Morgado, Amber Rose Rovah, Roma Downey and Greg Hicks. Directed by Christopher Spencer. (PG-13. 138 minutes.) Let he who is free of snark cast the first stone on "Son of ...

This is the fifth and final part of a five-part essay by Immaculate Heart of Mary Sr. Sandra Schneiders on the meaning of religious life today. In this part Schneiders, professor of New Testament ...

Not too many people would disagree that each day of our lives needs to be lived to the fullest. How this “fullness of life” is achieved is open to many opinions and interpretations. Many people take ...

Another in a series of occasional articles. TEHRAN -- A man wrapped in a shawl stood at the door. “This is Jesus,” said another man. Jesus sat and peeled an orange as his companion, Nader Talebzadeh, ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven has written a book that contradicts biblical teaching by suggesting that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier who raped ...