Do you ever hear people say things like “that’s her cross to bear” or “everyone has their own cross to bear” or “his illness is a real cross”? I’m not always comfortable with the implications I hear ...

Though some believe Christmas is embodied by a jolly man in a red and white suit, others steer toward more religious roots. Jesus Christ is celebrated as the reason for the season for many ...

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration, the Daily Mail ...

A painting of Jesus Christ rendered by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens has sold for millions at auction after it was missing ...

In the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the region Ituraea and Trachonitis, and ...

In “Miracles and Wonder,” historian Elaine Pagels examines the life of Jesus through historical, textual and theological ...

The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem begins with commemorating Jesus's condemnation by Pilate in the traditional site of Pilate's Praetorium and ends at the Holy Sepulcher with remembering his interment in ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

In a recent article, I delineated the features of a figure to which I referred as “Jesus Now.” Jesus Now is the Jesus, perhaps the only Jesus, with whom millions of contemporary American Christians ...