Tag: Jesus Christ
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white...
Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of...
A justification for unrest? Look no further than the Bible and...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder and Samuel L. Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder
The civil unrest seen across the United States following the killing...
Why Joe Biden was denied communion at a church
Bruce T. Morrill, Vanderbilt University
Former Vice President Joseph Biden, who is a Roman Catholic, recently stopped on the campaign trail to attend Sunday Mass...
The history of the cross and its many meanings over the...
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
In the fall, Catholics and some other Christian churches celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross. With...
Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts about the...
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin
On April 21, Christians will be celebrating Easter, the day on which the resurrection of Jesus is said...
4 things to know about Ash Wednesday
William Johnston, University of Dayton
For Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus is a pivotal event commemorated each year during a season of preparation...
What drives the appeal of ‘Passion of the Christ’ and other...
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Hamilton College
Church isn’t the only place people go to learn about Jesus.
At the beginning of Lent, 15 years ago, devout evangelical...
Why a 14th-century mystic appeals to today’s ‘spiritual but not religious’...
Joel Harrington, Vanderbilt University
The percentage of Americans who do not identify with any religious tradition continues to rise annually. Not all of them, however,...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
