At 6 p.m. April 17, journey back in time to join Jesus’ disciples ... balloon twisting, coloring cones, bubble blowing, sidewalk art, hooping fun and Easter pictures. Specials include $5 kids ...

Nothing gets everyone in on the action like Easter plays for kids. Adults love watching (who could resist?), and kids are all about the fun of playing those famous Easter characters. Whether you want ...

Maundy is derived from the Latin word for “command,” and refers to Jesus’ commandment to the disciples to “Love one another as I have loved you.” What does it commemorate? Maundy ...

In The New Yorker piece, it's assumed that the Gospels were written long after the fact, that whoever did write them were not eyewitnesses and that Jesus and the disciples did not speak Greek.

In whose image? This phenomenon was not restricted to Europe: There are 16th- and 17th-century pictures of Jesus with, for example, Ethiopian and Indian features. In Europe, however, the image of ...

It’s a complete disservice and an impossibility.” Jesus’s disciples are Jewish, too — including a feisty Galilean fisherman named Simon, one of Jesus’s earliest converts, played by ...

Holy Saturday, the Sabbath on which Jesus rested in the grave. The disciples arranged for the Passover meal, which took place after sundown on Thursday. We might call it Friday Eve, because by ...