When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod. There were different rulers called Herod who formed part of the background history of Jesus and the New Testament. This is the ...

Like a shoddy police procedural with an easily-recognizable bad guy—the unshaven one with the heavy accent—the Christmas story has one villain in particular. Not Joseph, who didn’t believe Mary’s tale ...

Everyone who’s ever gone to Israel seems to come back saying, “It makes the Bible come alive.” I longed to experience that for myself but never had the opportunity until last month, when the Israeli ...

Recently, I've been thinking about what it must have been like to have lived during Jesus' lifetime. The land known as Israel, or Judea/Palestine, was under Roman rule and governed by what is now ...