Upstate New York in the early nineteenth century was known as the “Burned-Over District,” on account of the wildfires of religious enthusiasm that regularly swept through the area. The revivals came ...

An Amsterdam publishing house said Wednesday it will release a biography of Jesus written by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven.Verhoeven is best known as the director of blockbuster films including "Basic ...

Biblical drama. Starring Diogo Morgado, Amber Rose Rovah, Roma Downey and Greg Hicks. Directed by Christopher Spencer. (PG-13. 138 minutes.) Let he who is free of snark cast the first stone on "Son of ...

Christian-turned-Muslim Reza Aslan’s new book on Jesus of Nazareth presents the life of Jesus within his historical context. Aslan chose to study the life of Jesus from a historical perspective ...

Since the Enlightenment, the Gospel stories about the life of Jesus have been in doubt. Intellectuals then as now asked: “What makes the stories of the New Testament any more historically probable ...

The long history of people who wonder about the reality of Jesus Christ — Christians and non-Christians alike — is not limited to the question of what really happened on the first Noel. As TIME ...

Even C. S. Lewis was skeptical of searches for the "historical Jesus." And why not? Even before Albert Schweitzer published his The Quest of the Historical Jesus in 1906, many Christians bemoaned such ...

Not too many people would disagree that each day of our lives needs to be lived to the fullest. How this “fullness of life” is achieved is open to many opinions and interpretations. Many people take ...

Another in a series of occasional articles. TEHRAN -- A man wrapped in a shawl stood at the door. “This is Jesus,” said another man. Jesus sat and peeled an orange as his companion, Nader Talebzadeh, ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven has written a book that contradicts biblical teaching by suggesting that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier who raped ...