'Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus' by Elaine Pagels. T he compelling latest book from the best-selling religious scholar Elaine Pagels is "a kind of culminating work," said ...

After 2,000 years of retelling, the Jesus story has too often lost its shocking and revolutionary power. Bear Grylls’ book ...

At the end of Miracles from Heaven, viewers get a glimpse at the real Beam family, including Christy, Kevin, Annabel and her ...

Book Review. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. By Elaine Pagels Doubleday: 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...

Elaine Pagels, the best-selling author and Princeton professor, explains her interest in the life of Jesus in much the same terms. She opens her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” with an ...

Writing around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, in 70 C.E., he gave Jesus’s story cosmic dimensions. Now it was the tale of “God’s spirit contending against Satan, in a ...

“Nothing Else but Miracles” by Kate Albus. Alec Worrell-Welch is a clerk in the Children’s Library at Johnson City Public Library. He also serves as a Christian minister who works with ...

‘The Book of Clarence’ is a reimagining of the biblical story of Jesus. We are first introduced to Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield), a hustler living in A.D. 33 Jerusalem whose identical twin ...

The Book of Clarence, in American theaters Friday, has a somewhat different agenda.Here, Samuel is indulging his love of classic Bible epics while filtering the genre through his own experiences ...

The Korean production from Angel Studios retells Jesus’ miracles with a star-studded voice cast but falls into the faith-based-movie trap of putting message before artistry and entertainment ...

The Gospels never mention that Jesus had a wife. As Sue Monk Kidd points out in her author’s note to “The Book of Longings,” the Bible is silent on his life from age 12 to 30.

Kidd says she hit a snag after finishing Part 1 of “The Book of Longings.” She realized something was missing: “I did not take writing about a married Jesus lightly by any means.