By: Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside ...

The Gospel of Thomas is the non-canonical Christian doctrine discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, more than half a decade ago. Scholars speculate that the works, which date to 340AD, were buried in ...

The Gospel Library app has numerous resources available in addition to the scriptures. Three new topics have been added to the Topics and Questions section of the app and the website at ...

God may have created man in his image, but there is a well-known tendency among biblical scholars to re-create Jesus in their own image. The tendency is particularly notable among skeptical scholars, ...

Sarah Parkhouse receives funding from the British Academy. Cynthia Erivo, the award-winning actor and star of Wicked, will play Jesus Christ at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles between August 1 and 3 ...

Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history. In Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, villain ...

One might be surprised to discover that the most critically acclaimed motion picture about the life of Jesus Christ is not Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ or Martin Scorcese's The Last ...

At a September 2012 academic conference in Rome, Karen King, a historian at Harvard Divinity School, made a major announcement. She had discovered a fragment of papyrus that bore a shocking phrase: ...

In 2012 Karen King, a prestigious scholar at Harvard Divinity School, announced the academic discovery of a lifetime: a scrap of papyrus, purportedly from the early days of Christianity, in which ...

What are U.S. Catholics going to do with Donald Trump? We have to deal with him because he is president of the United States. He occupies what Theodore Roosevelt referred to as the "bully pulpit," a ...