We’ve been looking at the way the kingdom of God that Jesus proclaimed was the development of perhaps the central theme of ...

What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus ...

Celebrating his first Easter Vigil as the new archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said that Jesus, through ...

The solidarity that Jesus offered the vulnerable on the cross long ago calls Christians to stand up to oppression today.

Jesus told him, "I tell you the truth, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). Apart from ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

Jesus foretold his death and resurrection to prepare his followers — and us — for the hope of eternal life through God’s love ...

In a world besieged by the violence of impatience, the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus show us how to enter into the patience ...

The Gospel of Thomas also suggests that Jesus is aware of, and criticizing the views of the Kingdom of God as a time or a place that appear in the other gospels. Here Jesus says, "If those who ...

Elaine Pagels remains fascinated by the mysteries of Jesus after decades of study. In her latest book, she revels in the ...