Luke begins his narration of Jesus’s ministry with two incidents: the first, is his appearance in the synagogue at Nazareth; the second, a typical day at Capernaeum, the lakeside town where Jesus ...

2005-12-23 04:00:00 PDT Nazareth, Israel-- On a rocky hillside in Nazareth, the town where Jesus grew up and spent much of his life, a familiar scene is taking shape. In the courtyard of a stone ...

When Jesus returned to Nazareth, He spoke in the synagogue in front of people that he grew up with, according to Luke 4:22-30. Here, He should have been a hometown hero, but He wasn’t. The people of ...

Jesus meets an incredulous group of people from his home town in this Wednesday’s Gospel reading (Mark 6:1-6). It’s a fascinating text, and it has a surprising number of interesting details. Let’s ...

THE significance of Christmas in our lives should focus on the world-changing values that Jesus of Nazareth brought into the ...

Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune’s senior religion writer, Peggy Fletcher Stack, is on assignment in the Middle East. Besides her deeper reporting, she is sharing shorter daily dispatches. This ...

There was no one better than Rabbi Jacob Neusner — one of the most knowledgeable living experts on Judaism — to dialogue with the theologian Archbishop Bruno Forte on the Sermon on the Mount. The ...

During my recent trip to Israel, on a cold, windy and rainy day, I was blessed to visit the extraordinary archaeological site of Capernaum. A sign posted at the entrance to the site caught my ...

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 ...

Visiting Germany for the first time in 1996, I was startled to discover that synagogues and other Jewish sites had to be guarded round-the-clock by police. To attend Shabbat services at the Orthodox ...