Archaeologists and scientists are converging on one of Christianity’s most contested questions: what really happened to Jesus ...

By Mark Wilmoth This story bothers some folks. First, there’s the problem of the text. Look up John 8:1-11 in your Bible and you’ll probably see a footnote that reads “The earliest manuscripts do not ...

The name “Jesus” is a late arrival; the man from Nazareth did not hear it in his own village. In first-century Galilee, ...

Jesus's real name may not have been Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's real name was most likely Yeshu Nazareen, according to language and phonetic experts, as cited in a New York Post report. Being the ...

Jesus has been portrayed in many different ways: from a prophet who alerts his audience to the world's imminent end to a philosopher who reflects on the nature of life. But no one has called Jesus an ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as Black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she’d always thought Jesus was white. At least ...

Was Jesus gay? Apparently this is still a question, approximately 2012 years after his birth. And why does it matter? On Friday, The Guardian tried answering that in an op-ed by Paul Oestreicher, a ...

I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this ...