Few scholars will deny that Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was the “leading literary critic of the north of Europe” in the last quarter of the 19th Century. The sage of Copenhagen had a brilliant pen. It ...

Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen draws on decades of study to explore nondual spirituality, early Christian thought, and ...

Many Jews and Christians trace 2,000 years of anti-Jewish persecution directly back to certain pronouncements of Jesus. In Matthew 23:37, for example, Jesus exclaims, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing ...

The demographics of those who were raised in the church – and remain in it – also differ in notable ways from those who left ...

Religion and “church” has clouded our view of Jesus. Image by Dale Forbes from Pixabay. There is one very important thing that religious deconstruction taught me about Jesus: With a few exceptions, ...

What did it mean to be a holy man in first century Palestine? There is a complex variety of historical traditions about Jesus. He appears in our records, primarily the gospels, in different guises, ...

Jesus never turned away the marginalized. Not once. He ate with tax collectors and sinners. He touched those society called “unclean.” He welcomed women, children, foreigners, and outcasts—people the ...

BERLIN — “Do you remember how Jesus came to Galilee and saw the fishermen beside the Sea of Galilee?” During a video call with children marking the opening of youth centers near Moscow, Vladimir Putin ...

Early Christian art often depicts Jesus performing miracles while holding a short staff, a detail that has puzzled modern ...

In the first five months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan, New Yorkers could not get enough ...