There are six hundred passages of explicit violence in the Hebrew (Old Testament) Bible; one thousand verses where God’s own ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

The life and ministry of the historical Jesus stand in contrast to the more conservative vision of the mythical, spiritual ...

understood the sufferings of mortals--gods who cared. Miracles and Healing in the Roman World In Matthew's gospel, Jesus' birth is heralded by the heavenly portent of a star rising in the East ...

Though the Bible says a lot about Jesus Christ, it says very little about what he actually looked like. And it took centuries ...

“About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). When some of those standing there ...