There was no one better than Rabbi Jacob Neusner — one of the most knowledgeable living experts on Judaism — to dialogue with the theologian Archbishop Bruno Forte on the Sermon on the Mount. The ...

Luke begins his narration of Jesus’s ministry with two incidents: the first, is his appearance in the synagogue at Nazareth; the second, a typical day at Capernaeum, the lakeside town where Jesus ...

Jesus was a Jew. This rudimentary fact about the Son of Man is often overlooked by Christians, who are habitually prone to emphasize the differences rather than the similarities between their religion ...

Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune’s senior religion writer, Peggy Fletcher Stack, is on assignment in the Middle East. Besides her deeper reporting, she is sharing shorter daily dispatches. This ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Worship services at First United Methodist Church on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 10 a.m. will focus on the story of Jesus returning to the Nazareth synagogue where he was brought up. Reading ...

NAZARETH, Israel - We climbed the narrow streets of Jesus' boyhood home in Nazareth and looked out from a steep ridge. Did he really walk here? A broad valley winds northeast toward the Sea of Galilee ...