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She has applied to the Guinness World Records for the record of the largest textile-art project by a single person.

Christians typically celebrate Jesus’s resurrection each spring on Easter Sunday, participating in Easter traditions like ...

Starting with Jesus’ Palm Sunday ride into Jerusalem, the events written in the Bible’s New Testament leading up to the ...

Matricciani, E. (2024). The Golgotha Unveiled from the Writings of Maria Valtorta Is Not the Traditional One. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 12, 503-531. doi: 10.4236/jss.2024.1212034 .

But in contrast to all this, the Old Testament, which the Jews call the Hebrew Bible, contains many prophecies which Jesus Christ fulfilled. That includes promises that touch on the original Christmas ...

How different would history look like? Our world? It’s important to say this upfront – I am a Christian – a follower of ...

This Christmas season, let Mary’s story inspire us to act: to extend kindness to those in need, stand with the marginalized, ...

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 ...

Woven through the Bible's Old Testament are hundreds of prophecies that tell of a Messiah, a Savior, that will be born ...

James, also known as James the Just, led Jerusalem’s Christian community after Jesus’ crucifixion. The ossuary’s owner, Oded Golan, acquired the box as a student. “I didn’t recognize its importance at ...