Jesus is stripped of his garments. Clothing gives a man his social position; it gives him his place in society, it makes him someone. His public stripping means that Jesus is no longer anything at ...
Scholars uniformly back the historical authenticity of Jesus of Nazareth, as there is near-universal agreement — even in secular quarters — that the man at the center of the New Testament ...
Byzantine mosaic from Ravenna, Italy, depicting the three wise men on their way to visit Jesus. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 2.5 Famously, the birth of Jesus is celebrated in many parts of the ...
As for the strips of cloth, the swaddling clothes — this is how the shepherds ... While the birth of Jesus describes what happened that first Christmas, it's the Incarnation that tells us ...
Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre surround the restored Edicule, a shrine that Christian tradition says was built over the burial place of Jesus Christ. The shrine ...
Every Christmas, a storm of controversy ignites over the accurate date of Jesus’ birth. Fueled by sensationalist media and a public eager to speculate, these debates churn out myths and ...