BRATTLEBORO -- Worship services at First United Methodist Church on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 10 a.m. will focus on the story of Jesus returning to the Nazareth synagogue where he was brought up. Reading ...

Archeologists interviewed by CNN say it’s at least possible that Jesus sat with his disciples in this ancient synagogue found in northern Israel. It’s going to be hard to prove that historically, but ...

Find today’s readings here. Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. “Is he not the carpenter’s son?” ask the people of Nazareth upon Jesus’ return. In addition to ...

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He was not the young man they had known before. They were sizing him up, as people in small towns will do, when he stood up in the synagogue to read from the prophet Isaiah. He read a fantastic and ...

Among my fellow Jews, there is much misinformation and “fake news” about the Jewish Jesus, starting with my deceased parents. During Christmas time, a few years before my mother passed, I told her ...

MOST people who consider themselves Christians will have their own imagined image of Jesus of Nazareth. Few really know who he was, what he did and said, or was reported as having said. Most know him ...

Nazareth was a very small town when Jesus was born. When my wife and I visited there in 2014, our tour guide told us that it was scarcely as large as the parking lot of the Church of the Annunciation ...

The first miracle recounted by Mark is significantly an exorcism, a sign that in the presence of Jesus, the power of evil is reduced to impotence. In the ancient world, sickness was understood as ...

For centuries, the town of Bethlehem has been synonymous with the birth of Jesus, its name etched into Christian tradition. Depictions of the Nativity, replete with shepherds, wise men, and a humble ...

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to pray at the 11th and 12th ...