Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I often find that people are OK with Jesus as they understand him. He’s a nice guy. Jesus is envisioned as something between Mr.

(RNS) — In a new book, Diana Butler Bass says our understanding of Jesus needs to be informed by personal experience. (RNS) — My earliest memory of Jesus is as a Sunday school flannelgraph cut-out. I ...

We can look for issues of faith to be increasingly invoked in public discourse in the weeks and months to come as people try to justify what they are planning and doing in the name of Jesus Christ.

Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

Lent is not just one more liturgical season. It is a time of abundant grace for a new conversion, when God is “purifying us by the sacred practice of penance,” as we pray at Mass during Lent. Most ...

Tim Stafford interprets Jesus’ life for a new generation in Surprised by Jesus. Every era needs a writer who will interpret Jesus for a new generation. To some degree, N. T. Wright has done this for ...

A scholar of the texts of the Qumran community and early Judaism, Matthias Henze teaches at Rice University, where he is founding director of the program in Jewish studies. His books include Jewish ...

Zeki Saritoprak’s book Islam’s Jesus examines the role of Jesus in the Qur’an and in Islamic theology. He has written about many Islamic theologians, mystics, and scholars, including the 13th-century ...