"When we are born into this world, we perceive physical light, and without it we would have no physical life on this earth," ...

Worshippers in Jerusalem ... culture molding Jesus into a less Jewish, more cosmopolitan champion of social justice. In 1991 John Dominic Crossan published a bombshell of a book, The Historical ...

In Jerusalem this would have meant thousands ... From the very first scene of John's gospel when Jesus enters the story for the first time, he does so by coming to John the Baptist to be baptized.

One of the forgotten facts of the story of Jesus’ life is that he came from a profoundly dysfunctional family. I was reminded ...

Jesus turning to them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the ...

Meanwhile, the Book of Mormon states that Jesus “shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers.” This has led some to question whether Jesus was born in Jerusalem or the ...

Holidays have an uncanny way of exposing how messy our lives really are. The juggle of expectations from different family ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has sent out his Christmas Message in a film (see link below ... because there was no room for them in the inn" (Lk 2:7). Jesus enters ...

Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.

By Leonard S. Marcus Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss The protagonists of “A Day With ...

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