Across social media, you can see people tugging at the name of Jesus to try and justify whatever position someone takes on a ...

You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life” (John 5:39, 40, RSV). The ...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

Jesus is the central figure of Christianity, believed by Christians to be the messiah, the son of God and the second person in the Trinity. For some Jews, the name alone is nearly synonymous with ...

For the next few weeks, we’ll be thinking about the coming of Jesus into our world. To some, this season will simply be the sentimental, romanticized celebration of a cute, cuddly baby’s birth. To ...

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And now, Jacob, I speak unto you: Thou art my first-born in the days of my tribulation in the wilderness. And behold, in thy childhood thou hast suffered afflictions and much sorrow, because of the ...