A lifelong advocate for marginalized communities, educator and counselor, Jesus Otero was among a group of civic leaders who ...

New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty ...

Pontius Pilate is inextricably linked with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ but there was always debate about his existence ...

The debate over the color of Jesus’ skin is one of the oldest running arguments in religion. But this Easter, the question is a serious one — for several reasons.

“People do not put new wine into old wineskins,” he says. “Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ...

Jesus lived and taught in a diverse and politically complex society. Roman Judea, part of the larger Roman Empire, was predominantly Jewish in culture and religion.

In a controversial take on the classic nativity scene, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional blanket with a keffiyeh — a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

he proposes that in Roman eyes Jesus was a dangerous political rebel who was executed by Pilate on the charge of sedition. An ordained Anglican priest and a professor of comparative religion at ...

Debating the nature of Jesus. A thoughtful book that includes a lively conversation between New Testament scholars Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird. by Zen Hess in the September 2024 issue. Published on ...