In his new book, "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," author and scholar Reza Aslan sets out to dig through generations of interpretation to get to know Jesus, the real, historical ...

Peter is blunt: Apart from Jesus, “there is no other name under heaven … by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). He has one name — Jesus — but many titles. As I reminded my undergraduates, “Christ” is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HARWICH CENTER -- 03/28/21 -- The Rev. Dianne Arakawa, interim pastor, hands palms to a passenger. This is the second year church ...

As I reflected on this gospel lesson today (and I think you would find the same thing), I have a sense that Jesus is getting quite discouraged with his disciples. It's over two years now that he's ...

Unless we understand something of life in the first century, says archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed, we have “no chance of understanding Jesus or Paul, Peter or Mary.” Archaeological finds provide “an ...

“Secular” versus “religious” had no meaning in the ancient world. But in building a biography of Jesus, our modern distinction may help us understand Jesus’s two vocations: his “secular” occupation as ...

(RNS) — In a new book, Diana Butler Bass says our understanding of Jesus needs to be informed by personal experience. (RNS) — My earliest memory of Jesus is as a Sunday school flannelgraph cut-out. I ...

Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

Tim Stafford interprets Jesus’ life for a new generation in Surprised by Jesus. Every era needs a writer who will interpret Jesus for a new generation. To some degree, N. T. Wright has done this for ...

Zeki Saritoprak’s book Islam’s Jesus examines the role of Jesus in the Qur’an and in Islamic theology. He has written about many Islamic theologians, mystics, and scholars, including the 13th-century ...