According to Harnack, the essence of Christianity is Jesus’ preaching of the Father. The Son had no place in the Gospel as Jesus preached it. This “liberal” construction of the Gospel which Jesus ...

King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited ( Zondervan, 2011 ) Scot McKnight The what-is-the-gospel discussion continues. The latest contribution comes from New Testament professor Scot ...

The Gospel of Thomas, an ancient manuscript that houses 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, paints a different picture of the religious leader than traditional scriptures. Instead of a figure performing ...

If you’ve ever sat down and read through the Gospel of Mark in one sitting, one word stands out like a flashing light: immediately. Mark says it again and again — more than forty times. At first, it ...

A small, 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in a German archive has been revealed to contain the earliest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, an early Christian text describing the ...

Humanity is at a critical crossroads. The omnipresent nuclear danger. The climate crisis. Perpetual wars. Worsening tensions between the U.S. and Russia and China. Countless people worldwide continue ...

Never has so much paper been devoted to such a little scrap of papyrus — a scrap that suggests some Christians thought Jesus was a married man. Here's the bottom line from more than 60 pages of ...

Milo Rau's restaging of the Passion of Christ has just premiered in a digital version. It's the first European film to portray Jesus as a Black person. Muddy roads, rusted cars, makeshift shelters and ...

After winning three Grammy Awards, Jelly Roll used the stage to share the Gospel with millions watching the live show, reminding them that anybody can have a relationship with Jesus ...