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Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

The book unravels the family history of Jesus into details. According to Mr. Norris, almost all of the significant persons mentioned in the New Testament were in fact related to Jesus in one way or ...

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Archaeologists discovered a nearly 2,800-year-old dam near Jerusalem's Pool of Siloam, the biblical site where Jesus healed a ...

The delicate balance of private faith, establishment support and public funding vital to the study of LDS history is now ...

How Christian teachers can tell the story of Black history in culturally relevant ways. As a kid, my friends and I believed that the designation Black History Month in February was due to a racist ...

Russell M. Nelson, the 17th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, passed away at 101 years old on ...

Mass at the Church of Jesus the Nazarene rarely lures enough congregants to fill more than a few pews. Trash piles up outside ...

A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during Sunday services, inflicting casualties after ramming his vehicle into ...