Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including the just published Heaven and Hell. He is a ...

A young man once told me that he had seen the face of Jesus in the trunk of a chestnut tree, the bark moving as if it were flesh. An older woman told me that Christ had appeared to her in the ...

“Jesus wept.” The shortest verse in the Bible. It is found in John 11:35, NIV. But the verse following says, “Then the Jews said, ‘See how he loved them.’” When we love deep, we grieve deep. TobyMac ...

Billions of Christians around the world believe that on Easter, Jesus was raised from the dead and taken up to heaven to live with God. They also believe that when they die, their own souls will go to ...

There’s a moment in *Heaven, How I Got Here* that absolutely guts you. It’s the moment when the thief realizes how close he came to missing everything. He was right there. Just a few feet from the ...

(RNS) — Jesus saw Óscar and Valeria. Jesus saw the woman and the three little children who died in the desert. He sees all of the crowds of migrants, harassed and helpless and fleeing from a home they ...

The last 10 days of the Easter season run from Ascension Thursday until Pentecost Sunday. Many Catholics might think of the Ascension as the “end” of Jesus’ activity in the world (at least until He ...

Find today’s readings here. Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in ...

When most people think of Heaven, they imagine clouds, angels, and golden gates in the sky. But early Christian mystics didn’t see Heaven as a place you reached after death, they saw it as a spiritual ...