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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 ...

Christians celebrate Easter Sunday to commemorate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, the miracle that started a global movement with 2.4 billion adherents. But what if Jesus’ family connections were ...

Happy Easter! Easter marks the high point of the Christian liturgical calendar, when billions of Christians around the world celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, the central hope of the Christian ...

This children’s Christmas book paints baby Jesus in a new (or rather ancient) light. In 2010 I visited the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and was struck by how different ethnic groups ...

They’re digging for answers. There has been an ongoing debate for many years over where Jesus was crucified and buried — with many experts believing the site to be on the grounds of the Church of the ...

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...

(RNS) — Is there an ethical or spiritual way to kill an animal? That’s the question that animates “Christspiracy: The Spirituality Secret,” the forthcoming documentary that suggests Jesus and many of ...

Did Jesus have a wife and two kids? LONDON -- Did Jesus have a wife and two kids? That is the striking -- to some, blasphemous -- claim at the heart of the new book “The Lost Gospel: Decoding the ...

Jesus Christ (also known as Jesus of Galilee or Jesus of Nazareth) is the central figure in Christianity who is seen as the son of God. Important aspects of the Christian canon are the Virgin Birth of ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Jesus Film Project is producing an animated “Jesus” film that is set to release in theaters around Christmas 2025. “Do you realize that there are more people in the world today who ...