A painting of Jesus greeting grateful lost sailors was too big to move, so a vice admiral brought in the curtains. (JTA) — The painting in a key room in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was as ...

It intended to show the birth of Jesus from a feminist perspective ... protesting what they saw as a “homoerotic” painting of Jesus commissioned to celebrate Easter in the Spanish city ...

(JTA) — A large painting of Jesus will be moved out of a room at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, and mandatory events will not take place in its presence. That decision by the ...

Careful interpretation is needed. These slides discuss some of the issues involved. For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod the Great, who we ...

Accordingly its consideration of the birth of Jesus starts with Paul’s references thereto: Galatians 4:4; Romans 1:3, 4 and 8:3, and Philippians 2:5–11. In Galatians four, Paul is talking ...

In 2012, Cecilia Giménez noticed that a fresco of Jesus Christ at her local parish was damaged. She tried to fix it herself, but ended up ruining the painting, which was mocked all over the internet.

How does this relate to the birth of Jesus? Fast forward a few hundred years to the writers of the Gospels in the New Testament. To confirm that Jesus was the Messiah sent from God, they referred ...

A short life and brutal death was enough to ensure that Jesus’ message of hope and everlasting life would spread across Judaea, across the Empire and ultimately, across the world. One of the ...