Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned ...

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I grew up in the era of evangelistic T-shirts. I was too shy to wear any myself, but I had friends who did. “WWJD?” “Cross-trained.” “Made to worship.” “Be still and know.” One of the T-shirt slogans ...

It’s the central question of the Gospel for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time. It’s the central question of the Gospel, period. If you look at the Gospel of Mark, it’s right there in Chapter 8, smack ...

I saw your article on Five Myths about Seven Books and wonder if you think that the question posed to Jesus in Mark 12 about the resurrection is rooted in Tobit 3 and confirms that this book is part ...

Asking ourselves questions found in the Bible can transform our spiritual life. Inspired questions are the ones found in the inspired Word of God—the Holy Scriptures. They help us sense the presence ...

‘And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised,” we read in the Gospel of Luke, “he was called Jesus.” For centuries, Jan. 1 was celebrated in the Christian church’s liturgical calendar as the ...

These small, black Greek characters embedded in the face of an 1800-year-old mosaic seem innocent enough. But the epitaph evokes a dispute from the 12 Apostles’ ministries: How did Jesus become a god?

Imagine it if you can. Jesus, the Son of God, the miracle worker, the controversial, dangerous teacher, looks at you and asks, "What do you want me to do for you?" Some people might take this as an ...