There is a long history of the phrase “pray for your enemies” being used to sum up Jesus’ message. Christian writers started using the phrase as early as the Didache, a collection of church teachings ...
For Christians committed to justice, there’s a different path. We can fight for the dignity of all people and reject policies ...
In Jerusalem, Jesus healed a paralyzed man at a ritual ... above elaborately carved cedar beams erected in the sixth century. We carefully circle a section of floor cut open to reveal the earliest ...
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 I saw often was “Jesus is the answer.” Kids ...
In this multi-disciplinary study, Rosemary Margaret Luff contributes to current debates concerning the pressures on early first-century Palestinian Jews, particularly with reference to socio-economic ...
Recent discussions of Jesus' social class try to locate him within the social structures of Mediterranean society generally, or Galilean society, in the first century. And there seems to be a ...
and that an alleged burial shroud imprinted with the image of Christ can be traced at least to the sixth century. It's fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status ...
In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures ... They were combined together to form our Pentateuch sometime in the sixth century BCE. By this time, many of the other biblical ...
Wars, pandemics, climate change, and unusual astronomical phenomena: these have been part of human existence in one form or ...
Earlier this month, The Jesus Lizard returned with The Rack, their first new album in more than a quarter-century. Now, that set reaches the Billboard charts, and it’s become an instant win for ...
One was a lovely marble bust of a Byzantine noblewoman smuggled out of Syria dating to the 6th century. To me she was as beautiful as Empress Theodora in ... Because the dumb forger had inscribed the ...
Special technology was able to confirm that copper alloy fragments already in the collection are part of the Bromeswell Bucket, the National Trust said Missing pieces of a 6th Century Byzantine ...