A preacher from Galilee, with no army, no political office, and no printing press, stood before a handful of followers in the ...

In the New Testament, Jesus makes a surprising choice when he begins gathering his closest followers. Instead of choosing ...

That’s not what Jesus does. Some Catholic biblical scholars find in the perfect tense of the word “conquer” a significant ...

Why Jesus? This is the inescapable question presented by J. M. Coetzee’s “Jesus trilogy,” which began in 2013 with “The Childhood of Jesus,” continued in 2016 with “The Schooldays of Jesus,” and now, ...

Jesus longs for us to encounter him personally. Enter the love story — and place your head on his heart. Sacred Heart mosaic at the Chapel of the Visitation, Paray-Le-Monial, France, where Jesus ...

A young man once told me that he had seen the face of Jesus in the trunk of a chestnut tree, the bark moving as if it were flesh. An older woman told me that Christ had appeared to her in the ...

What race was Jesus of Nazareth, one of the most consequential figures in the history of the world? Nobody can say for certain, but based on recent comments by the head of the Church of England, it is ...

In the latest "The Nonviolent Jesus" podcast, John Dear and Bernard Lafayette, founder of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, discuss Martin Luther King Jr., "Kingian" nonviolence and hopes ...

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 ...