Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration ...

A jaw-dropping discovery by NASA may lend cosmic credibility to one of the Bible’s most dramatic moments — the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — and the spooky sky show that followed.

According to Oxford University scholars, a NASA discovery could validate the biblical story of Jesus' crucifixion. Some historians believe that the Bible's description of the sun turning into ...

Being born again at that moment, Pagels writes in her remarkable “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” “opened up vast spaces in my imagination. It changed my life.” ...

Easter celebrates the astounding claim that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. Executed on Good Friday, he lay in a tomb, stone-cold dead. But on the first Easter morning some 2,000 years ago ...

Good Friday commemorates the suffering, crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth more than 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. At first glance, Good Friday seems like the ultimate misnomer.

The latest issue of The New Yorker includes an essay by Adam Gopnik, “We’re Still Not Done With Jesus,” on the scholarly debates about the origins of Christianity. In the piece, Gopnik ...