Jesus Christ is the most painted figure in Western art, so when his name comes up, a familiar image springs to mind. The long, light-brown hair falling over blue eyes and the tunic or toga framing a ...

Recent controversies over the historical legacy of racism in America haven't spared the symbols of religion. Several statues of St. Junípero Serra, an 18th-century Spanish missionary to California who ...

OPINION My parents and I recently visited a Christmas event where hundreds of Nativity scenes designed by artists from all ...

Most people picture Jesus’ tomb as a small, empty chamber with a single stone bench, but archaeology tells a very different story. First-century tombs around Jerusalem were multi-person family ...

Over the centuries, many people have asked: “What did Jesus look like?” A new documentary attempts to answer this question. “The Face of Jesus” examines two acheiropoietic images of Christ — the ...

No one knows. But news of a recent attempt to answer that question has resurfaced in these days leading up to the celebration of his birth. In case you missed it, British scientists and Israeli ...

With Easter just one day behind us, we have been bombarded with images of Jesus Christ of Nazareth from TV to the Internet. In a lot of depictions of Him, he is quite Caucasian looking, sometimes even ...

It is a question that has long puzzled historians and theologians... what DID Jesus actually look like? And it seems casting agents are also prone to getting themselves in a tangle over Christ's ...

Every year, Christians around the world mark Jesus’ traditional birth story with Nativity plays and Christmas festivities. The celebrated event is described in the Book of Luke, stating Mary, “gave ...