Christians celebrate Easter Sunday to commemorate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, the miracle that started a global movement with 2.4 billion adherents. But what if Jesus’ family connections were ...

The Feast of the Holy Family is a recent feast in the liturgy of the church, and by that, I mean within the last 100 years or 150 years that we began to celebrate such a feast. It doesn't go back to ...

Occasionally, events flow together in a kind of confluence. It's nice when that happens. Plus, I like saying the word "confluence." It trips off the tongue. The other day, I rediscovered another ...

The stone box that possibly held the skeletal remains of James the brother of Jesus has continued to come under critical scrutiny. Should the church and scholars take seriously this item of unknown ...

In this month of holiday cheer, centered on the celebration of the birth of Christ, have you ever thought about Jesus’ family tree? Of course, Christians believe that Jesus was born to a virgin, ...

Christmas is an appealing time of the year, associated with holiday cards, cheerful parties, talk about Mary, Jesus and the wise men; but not many people talk about Joseph, Jesus’ worldly father. I’d ...

A new piece of evidence is reigniting controversy over the potential bones of Jesus of Nazareth. A bone box inscribed with the phrase "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" is potentially linked to ...

What do you think occupied Jesus’ mind and heart after his resurrection? Surely, that must have been a time of ecstatic joy in the bonds of the Triune God, for the redemption conceived before the ...