Have you ever wondered what life's purpose is or how we are supposed to treat others who treat us unfairly? Maybe you're wondering how to pray or what you have to do to get into heaven. With all of ...

He’s familiar yet novel, this Muslim Jesus. We almost recognize the cadence. “Blessed is he who sees with his heart but whose heart is not in what he sees.” Still, it’s off somehow, and where are ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

“Comparable in importance to the Dead Sea Scrolls and of even greater significance to students of the New Testament.” That is how visiting Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann (TIME, March 23) described ...

The Seven Sayings of Jesus on the Cross are seven statements that Jesus made while he was being crucified, as recorded in the Gospels. The Seven Sayings — sometimes called the Seven Last Words — are ...

It’s a sign of the worldview of educated Westerners that even those curious about the spiritual life usually value the expertise of scholars and secular commentators – some of them overt atheists – ...

When I read this passage, I’d like to hear the inflection that Jesus gave to these words. “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they?” The inflection of the words makes a ...

A book omitted from the Bible written more than 1,600 years ago paints Jesus in a very different light. Known as the Gospel of Thomas, the ancient text features 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, ...

Next, we examine when Jesus criticized the Pharisees and scribes for disingenuously worshiping the Lord. Here is the Isaiah passage: “The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and ...

As a Western religion, Islam gives primacy to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and considers Jesus to be a holy prophet. In The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, Tarif ...