The star-studded new kids’ movie “The King of Kings” cleverly tells the story of the gospels with a creative framing device.

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

Of the four gospels in the Biblical canon, the Gospel of Mark is the shortest by a significant margin. The writer of John had ...

Since the Bible isn’t written as a screenplay, the animated movie THE KING OF KINGS uses a device to make the story of Jesus ...

Palm Sunday is fast approaching. Between it and Easter, Jesus is asked several times if he was the Messiah? In Luke 7:18-23, two disciples of John the Baptist come to ...

91 The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism by John was the sign that this was he who was to come, the Messiah, the Son of God. 92 He was conceived of the Holy Spirit; his whole life ...

Whoever the Beloved Disciple at the Last Supper is, on that retreat I was being invited to take that place—to be the Beloved ...

John first says we don’t become Christians because of our family (lit. in the Greek, “of bloods”) who may have been believers ...

OUR Holy Week retreat for readers, which pondered Maundy Thursday on April 10 and Good Friday on April 13, ends April 17 with ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis 80 years ago this week for supporting a plot to kill Hitler. Now his legacy is ...

He was transformed by his friendship with a Black classmate, and by the time he spent at Abyssinian Baptist Church ... And the Nazis reinvented Jesus as a muscular Aryan hero who fought Jews.