A Texas pastor wants to help people better apply the lessons of the Bible to their own lives with the help of a new book, "The Jesus Book: Reading and Understanding the Bible for Yourself." "The ...

(RNS) — Evangelicals love to talk to Jesus. And often, they say, he replies — giving them advice, comfort and words of encouragement. That is one reason why “Jesus Calling,” a book of daily devotions ...

Picks from Darrell Bock, editor of ‘Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus.’ I am serious about this—nothing has helped shape my view of Jesus more than the Gospels, read repeatedly as ...

A stained-glass window in St. Edward's Church in Seattle shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph on their flight into Egypt. Credit: CNS/Crosiers Over the past 40 years, I’ve tried to read as much as I can on ...

Remember the “WWJD” bracelets that reminded wearers to consider “What Would Jesus Do?” This book could bear the abbreviation “WWJT” — “What Would Jesus Think?” The title might, at first, seem a bit ...

Histories of the political, social, and economic origins of the Christian right in the United States are plentiful. However, outside of a handful of books focused on debates about creationism and the ...

According to Jewish wisdom literature, “the making of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body.” The same could be said of visual representations of Judaism’s ...

The Bible is often seen as a fixed text that has remained largely unchanged for generations, but it was not always so. There are 66 books in the modern Bible, across the Old and New Testaments, but ...