Some Jewish works written several hundred years before John's gospel portrayed Wisdom as God's heavenly consort. This Wisdom, pictured as a beautiful woman, lived with God and participated in ...

McDowell, Michael T. 2022. An Insider’s Church for Outsiders: The Johannine “Come and See” Passages and Christian Engagement with the World. Religions, Vol. 13 ...

The language of John's Gospel apparently reflects this state of affairs when the Pharisees are equated with the Jewish authorities, precisely the authorities who are able to say who belongs within the ...

An exquisite fine art edition of St John’s Gospel, illuminated by artist-calligrapher Jane Sullivan. Inspired by Celtic art and the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, this is a prayerful and ...

Elizabeth Schrader Polczer is assistant professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Hear the full version of ...

Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of the angel Gabriel to Zechariah and to Mary. Gabriel foretells two miraculous births: the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah's post-menopausal ...

The word “Gnostic” comes from the Greek word gnōsis, meaning knowledge. In a nutshell, Gnosticism refers to the knowledge of ...

With the death of John Mayall in July, we lost one of the architects of the '60s blues boom that transformed Britain’s music ...

In his fourth encyclical, “Dilexit Nos,” Pope Francis calls on believers to rediscover devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ...

Thousands were on hand at the Washington, D.C. university, hoping to cheer the election of the first Black woman to the ...

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