“Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Like most children raised by Christian parents in the South, I learned that song before I learned to sing my ABCs. It’s true that the Bible ...
He put a face to a God who was, before Jesus arrived, incorporeal, beyond human senses and human comprehension. In the words ...
356 pp., $26.00. According to Walter Wink, Christian orthodoxy has portrayed Jesus as the omnipotent God in a man-suit. Though this image of a perfect, almost inhuman Christ has dominated two ...
Today’s Gospel story always causes controversy. At the very least, it still has the power to surprise. Matthew’s Gospel has Jesus initially turning down a woman who has asked for healing for her ...
Eighty percent of adult Americans say they are Christians, and 70 percent claim that Jesus is divine as well as human—not just the famous Jewish teacher who walked the Palestinian earth in the first ...
THE ordinary reader of this book will be divided between boredom and bewilderment. The student of the life of Jesus will find it not only provocative but provoking. The author evidently knows ...
On DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, a science fiction series about a ragtag team of superheroes traveling through time, the spear that pierced Jesus Christ during his crucifixion — known by many names, ...
The first time I remember praying the rosary of my own volition was in fourth grade during the History Bee. It was my first academic competition, but far from my last, and I made it to the final round ...
His moments of doubt and temptation attest that we can follow him through our own. In many children’s Bibles, the Son of God swoops in like Superman to save the day. In these clearly mythological ...
A Jesus statue that has lived an unassuming life in a small town in Mexico for the last 300 years has been hiding a strange secret: real human teeth. Exactly how the statue of Jesus awaiting ...