Christians believe that Jesus "died for our sins." To my mind, that is nonsense. Jesus died because of the sins of the people of his time, not for the sins of the people of all time. Even so, given ...

I was shocked when I started reading the sermons in poetry by Narsai, the fifth-century saint, the “Harp of the Spirit”, born ...

January 3 being the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, we are reminded and encouraged to develop and have a special devotion to this name which means a world of goodness for all of us.

It is hard to believe Jesus would execute anyone. Jesus' message was one of compassion and mercy, even as he hung on the ...

Yes, Jesus really did die on a cross. The scriptures teach this in numerous places. Following are two of them: · "And as they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed ...

Biblical scholar John Bergsma tells the Register, ‘the Church to this day is still about the ministry of Jubilee.’ ...

And the Holy Innocents, victims of Herod’s persecution, give their lives in place of Jesus. They testify to him by their ...

And then James did something that surprised him as much as me: He gave his life to Jesus ... the life we could not live, died the death we deserved on the cross, and rose triumphantly from ...

The influential scholar who taught the narrative unity of Scripture and changed his mind about the morality of homosexuality ...

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

Plants come to our house to die. But if it’s already dead ... was to be nailed to a dead tree 33 years later. As Jesus hung on the cross, nailed to two pieces of wood, God the Father punished ...

The final resting place of the cup of Christ is the ‘holy grail’ of religious tourism. But hundreds of sites claiming to be ...