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Theater West End presents the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” in a production designed as a call to action in modern times.
The Gospels suggest that Jesus’ lineage extended all the way back to King David himself. Getty Images “It’s more the sense that already his father Joseph has likely planted some kind of seed ...
As Christmas approaches, Nativity scenes showing three wise men visiting the newborn Jesus are put up around the world. A scholar of Christian literature offers an explanation on their identity.
Another concerns Jesus himself: “He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph” (Luke 3:23). Legally, Jesus was Joseph’s son, but Joseph was not his biological father.
He knows the Jewish religious establishment has turned Jesus over to him out of envy (Matthew 27:18), but they kept referring to Jesus as a “king.” ...
The differences in the Gospels are hard to reconcile. That’s because, says a scholar, they offer an important insight into the Greco-Roman views of ethnic identity.
On this day, every priest is faced with a most daunting Advent task: to preach on the long genealogy of Jesus at the opening of Matthew’s Gospel (1:1-17).
For example, far too often, Jesus’ words in Matthew 18:20, “Where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them,” are irresponsibly leveraged to coerce listeners into more frequent ...
Jesus is saying, "I'm not going to be a king the way you think. I reject that. I reject power, domination, oppression, violence, war." So he stages his procession riding on a donkey.
If we want to honor Jesus today as a king, which our feast day calls for, we must be clear what kind of a king Jesus is and how he wants us to honor him. In that chapter of Matthew, Chapter 25, we ...