Today is the feast day of St. Mark. The first of the four canonical Gospel versions is attributed to him. The Synoptic Gospels tell of Jesus commissioning his disciples to go out and proclaim the ...

Matthew’s ending is the only one with a special name, the Great Commission—revealing a cultural predilection for this ending ...

Jesus appears to his disciples in Jerusalem. The disciples are startled and terrified, thinking that they are seeing a ghost. Jesus gives them the assurance that it is him. It is the risen Lord who ...

They have seen and engaged with the risen Christ, they believe, and now they are boldly carrying out his mission. By contrast ...

Joining host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., on this episode of “Preach” ahead of the Second Sunday of Easter, Casey Stanton argues ...

I was reading my friend Chris Harper’s blog (“Harp from Better Man” — great men’s blog) and he talked about a recent study of ...

Noah comes to mind as a Bible Paul Revere. Americans believed Paul Revere, but the people of Noah’s day ridiculed his warning ...

If Jesus rose from the dead we should believe his other claims. If he didn’t, why would we believe any of this? It matters ...

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the ...

On the evening of the first day of the week Jesus stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he showed the ...

The Easter holiday season is one of the holiest in Christianity. This year, the season will begin later than unusual, with Palm Sunday on April 13 and Easter on April 20.

It is known that the death of Jesus Christ occurred somewhere between AD 30 and AD 33. But how exactly did he die?