Moved by Nancy Eshelman's reflection on Christ's teachings, one community member calls on readers to reject hatred and embody the mercy Jesus exemplified.

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.

When Jesus reaches Mary (John 11:32), she asks him that major theological question, “Lord, why weren’t you here? You could have stopped this.” Jesus, in an earlier verse, gave Mary’s sister Martha ...

Some church denominations celebrate The Baptism of the Lord Sunday, Jan. 10. Jesus had the Holy Spirit descend on him at his baptism, and a voice from heaven proclaimed, “You are my beloved Son; with ...

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 ...

According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of Peter ...

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 ...

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 ...