Did Jesus preach, as best we know? And if he did preach what kinds of things did he preach about? When Jesus speaks, the major verb that is used in the gospel accounts is "to teach...." He teaches his ...

By The XIV Dalai Lama Throughout my life, i have held deep respect for all major religious traditions. Among them, Christianity occupies a special place – not because it is similar to Buddhism in ...

You have a new book coming out soon, “Love Thy Stranger,” arguing that Jesus taught a revolutionary message that transformed ...

In my house is a painting of one artist’s depiction of Jesus, which I bought years ago on the South Side. I give it extra attention during Holy Week and the celebration of Easter, a special day that ...

Find today’s readings here. Anyone who has lived in a place that alternates between wet and dry seasons knows the power of returning storms. Everything changes with the rain. Dry ground turns green ...

This is Danish artist Carl Heinrich Bloch’s depiction of Jesus Christ giving the Sermon on the Mount. Bloch lived from 1834-90. (Courtesy Photo) Told in its entirety only in Matthew 5-7, the Sermon on ...

Before Sunday’s Angelus prayer with pilgrims in the courtyard of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about today’s Gospel, in which Jesus' teaching about his presence in the Eucharist is met with ...

Jesus preached love and forgiveness. He often preached through the form of parables—disarmingly simple stories from nature, ...

The first-known Greek version of a heretical Christian writing describing Jesus’s secret teachings to James has been discovered in archives at the Oxford University in the U.K. The Bible describes ...