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

The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society. As protesters called for the removal of ...

With no confirmation of Jesus' birth and no mention of Christmas itself in the Bible, you may be wondering how the holiday ...

What would first-century Jews have thought when they saw a man heal cripples and still storms? An extract from The Miracles of Jesus explains the cultural relevance, and the deeper Biblical meaning, ...

CAN WE REALLY RECONSTRUCT JESUS' WORLD? For every scholar working with ancient history, the first thing to recognize is that our evidence is very, very fragmentary. In a way, we can never reconstruct ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. The season of Lent has come ...

(RNS) — What's the back story on this British import being revisited and reimagined on television Sunday night? Let us 'Splain ... The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an ...

This article originally appeared in the April 1, 1995 print issue of America. Part of what makes Holy Week holy is the solemn reading of two Gospel passion narratives, one from the first three Gospels ...

Painting depicting transfiguration of Jesus, a story in the New Testament when Jesus becomes radiant upon a mountain. Artist Raphael /Collections Hallwyl Museum, CC BY-SA The portrayal of Jesus as a ...

THE CONVERSATION via AP — The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society. As protesters called ...