(RNS) — A new animated film detailing the life of Christ hit theaters just in time for Easter. Based on Charles Dickens’ “The Life of Our Lord,” “The King of Kings” offers a digestible vision of Jesus ...

This year I published my book, Jesus: A Field Manual (How to Live the Sermon on the Mount). On the surface, the book is all about how to encounter and follow Jesus for yourself, and grow into the ...

In his 2013 hit “Beer With Jesus,” country singer Thomas Rhett imagines a barstool meeting with his Christian lord and savior. Similar pontifications — albeit without the beer — have occupied the ...

Within four centuries of Jesus' death, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire, as Weiss observes in her introduction to the podcast. By then, Christianity had 30 million followers ...

Christ was an exemplar of civility in an age of sociopolitical turmoil and religious hypocrisy. A few years ago, I worked in federal government in Washington, DC, during a very divided season—not ...

(The Conversation) — As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Other charismatic ...

Jesus did something almost entirely new. It wasn't beyond comprehension for Romans, say, to believe a man could become a god or rise to heaven to join his divine father there. Romans said Julius ...