Around 800, an unknown Irish monastery listed the appropriate liturgical readings for different feast days. For the mass of the circumcision, the text for the day came from the Gospel of James, ...

On Sunday, Roman Catholic leaders concluded a high-profile Synod in Rome, a council on multiple issues surrounding the family and sexuality. Women’s issues were at the forefront of many of the debates ...

In his own day, did Jesus have a reputation as a miracle worker? Virtually all scholars—both believers and skeptics—are convinced that he did. The Gospels are filled with reports of his miracles. But ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The novelist and literary critic Mary Gordon loves the story of the prodigal son, for she is a Catholic in her bones. The ...

In December 1945, Muhammad Ali—not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt—uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. Muhammad and his brother broke it open and found books, ...

Literary device theory is gaining popularity among scholars. Philosopher Lydia McGrew doesn’t buy it. Recently, a number of New Testament scholars have been very interested in exploring the ...

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...

In his new book, The Great Awakening, Jim Wallis describes how as a young man growing up in an evangelical church, he never heard a sermon on the Sermon on the Mount. That telling personal observation ...