The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...

What an act of faith for novelist Mary Gordon to imagine that her new book, "Reading Jesus," has a prayer. She admits upfront that she's not a Bible scholar; in fact, she had "never actually read the ...

As the story goes, on April 21, 1966, God visited the island of Jamaica. He arrived on a stormy day by plane — on a large white Ethiopian airliner emblazoned with the Lion of Judah. In fact, it was 74 ...