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 ...

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 ...

Find today’s readings here. We’ve probably all had the two-step reaction that the townspeople of Nazareth have in today’s Gospel: a moment of awe, followed by, “Wait a minute: this guy?” It seems odd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...