If I saw an empty tomb, I’d check for zombies,” says Logan, 9. “I wouldn’t think, ‘Oh, Jesus rose from the dead!’ because ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I often find that people are OK with Jesus as they understand him. He’s a nice guy. Jesus is envisioned as something between Mr.
We can look for issues of faith to be increasingly invoked in public discourse in the weeks and months to come as people try to justify what they are planning and doing in the name of Jesus Christ.
(RNS) — In a new book, Diana Butler Bass says our understanding of Jesus needs to be informed by personal experience. (RNS) — My earliest memory of Jesus is as a Sunday school flannelgraph cut-out. I ...
Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...
When I imagine Jesus—similar to when I imagine the Buddha—what initially comes to mind is someone who was pretty emotionally flat or emotionally neutral. If there’s an emotion I associate with Jesus, ...
Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...
I am compelled to write after reading Nancy Eshelman’s “inspired” piece in Sunday’s Patriot. She recalls the Jesus of her Catholic school education who ”was good and kind and loved everyone." Eshelman ...
A scholar of the texts of the Qumran community and early Judaism, Matthias Henze teaches at Rice University, where he is founding director of the program in Jewish studies. His books include Jewish ...