While their lives and legacies differ significantly, scholars argue that Alexander the Great set the stage for Jesus's ...

In the New Testament, God as the “Rock” is further developed, representing the person of Jesus Christ and the foundation of ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Holy Friday is a profoundly mournful day in Greece which commemorates the Passion of Christ with the traditional Epitaphios ...

A cradle Episcopalian, the 34-year-old Graves, like many Christians, was taught that Jesus had died for his sins and for the ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is the only independent source to attest to the existence and fate of Jesus, John the ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

A religious studies scholar reveals the complicated origins of Easter and how this holiday has evolved over the centuries.