Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

If you ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light ...

Suppose: a busy Galilean street, the sidewalks thronged with Aramaic chatter, and someone cries out Yeshua! Heads turn because in first-century Judea, the name was as common as “Josh” or “Joe” is ...

The best way to figure out why something absolutely had to happen is to imagine what it would be like if it had happened in some other way. That is what David Gray is doing in a comfortable Geneva, ...

Jesus’ parables – short stories with moral lessons – were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and salvation, ...

A Saint (Mark?) Reading, a painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1470 (Wikimedia Commons). Why does Jesus rebuke Peter, admonishing him to “Get behind me, Satan”?

However one assesses Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, the film has drawn attention to the death of Jesus in a way that preachers and teachers, who annually labor to place Good Friday before ...