One of the great pleasures of our work at Christianity Today is getting to spend so much time with books—with the scholarly ...

The novelist and literary critic Mary Gordon loves the story of the prodigal son, for she is a Catholic in her bones. The story, from the Gospels, is of a father's extravagant love for his proud and ...

Alexander J. Shaia believes that there’s a very good reason for the selection of the four gospels of the Bible. In his new book, The Hidden Power of the Gospels, Dr. Shaia moves beyond the surface of ...

I’ve been a fan of Bart Ehrman’s work for a while now. He’s a New Testament scholar who has an uncanny ability to make the consensus of biblical scholars understandable and interesting. He has five ...

Pope Francis has often repeated the need to read a passage of the Gospels every day, whether on the bus or waiting for a train. But this Sunday, he's going one step further by giving all the faithful ...

GRAYBEARDS will remember how, fifty years ago, Albrecht Ritschl strove to hold in check the “intuitionism ” then popular in American theological thought, by insisting that every alleged intuition be ...

In the New Testament's Gospel of John, chapter 20, verse 17, when Christ comes upon Mary Magdalene after he rises from his tomb, he says, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended/ to my Father" (King ...

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was nothing quite like Ministry. By the time of their third album, The Land of Rape and Honey (1988), they were serving up a mix of guitars, samplers, and beats ...

It’s Christmas, but not as you know it: a new book released this week by Pope Benedict XVI looks at the early life of Jesus – and debunks several myths about how the Nativity unfolded. In “Jesus of ...

UC Davis art history professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice starts, figuratively and literally, on June 1, 2010, ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis' funeral in St. Peter's Square on Saturday. Despite the presence of presidents and princes, prisoners and migrants ...