Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the ...

Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.” The phrase “finally” or “to sum up” is translated from the Greek word telos, which often signifies ...

Jesus Christ is one of the most important religious figures in history. During his life, he was a revolutionary, sage, teacher, and purported miracle worker. In death, he has been revered and studied ...

Lauded in the world’s two largest religions as the mother of God’s Chosen One—for Muslims a great prophet and for Christians ...

Lila Ann Leeper Hansen Ann was born March 28,1930 to Merril Leonadas Loar and Cora Edna Barnes Loar at LaPlata, NM. She grew up at LaPlata and the LaPlata Mountain, Co. Ann was preceded in death by ...

Challenge today is to extricate the historical, fully human Mary from theological baggage heaped upon her over centuries ...

If the passage was a prophecy of the virgin birth of Jesus, then betula would not apply since Mary, while not yet married per se to Joseph, was nonetheless no longer under the guardianship of her ...

Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue foretells of a miraculous child who is to bring a new golden age of peace, renewal, and cosmic ...

We think of the virgin birth as a basic element of Christian faith, yet only two of the four canonical Gospels refer to it: Matthew and Luke. Mark doesn’t mention Jesus’s birth and says little ...

Your book raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape. But before I ask you about ...