THE significance of Christmas in our lives should focus on the world-changing values that Jesus of Nazareth brought into the ...

Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

The three Herods mentioned in the Holy Scripture were all notorious for their cruelty. The first was Herod of Ascalon, aka ...

Faith, History, and Who Belongs in Israel. The land of Israel, often called the Holy Land, is sacred to Jews, Christians, and ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

In 447 AD, Attila and his Huns crossed the Danube in force, tearing through the Balkans and confronting the Eastern Roman ...

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in today’s fractured world too.

A full cabinet of marvelous costars includes Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Adam Driver, Lee ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

On this celebration of Christmas, Luke’s Gospel features accounts of two proclamations, one preceding and one following the ...

Did Joseph and Mary really need to go to Bethlehem because of a Roman census, or is this unhistorical, as some scholars ...

Judith Niewiadomski, Yonkers When Adam sinned, giving in to the temptation to be “as God,” determining what is good and what ...