With the newly added first round of the College Football Playoff taking place at campus sites, college football's most distinct fixtures and traditions will be at the forefront of the national stage.

This past September, Harvard University professor Karen King unveiled a newly discovered Gospel fragment that she entitled "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife." This wisp of a papyrus has stirred up a hornet's ...

I am writing this on December 24. Tonight, almost a third of the world’s population will celebrate Christmas, the holiday that commemorates the birth of Jesus. Christmas has become a gift-giving ...

Now why did he leave Galilee and head for Jerusalem? Jesus apparently at some point makes the decision to leave his home territory and move to Jerusalem. Precisely why he did that is not clear. It ...

Aviation experts have suggested the rotor of a sightseeing helicopter suffered "catastrophic failure" before it plunged into the Hudson River Thursday, killing a tech company CEO, his wife and three ...

JERUSALEM-- In the innermost chamber of the site said to be the tomb of Jesus, a restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes ...

Jesus was not white. The consensus among academics who have studied the matter is that he had “darker skin,” with some describing it as “olive-brown.” What that means is this: If Jesus were alive ...

Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including the just published Heaven and Hell. He is a ...

Joan Taylor receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust but not for this research. Rightly, the skin tone is olive, and the hair and beard black and shortish, but the nose, lips, neck, eyes, eyelids, ...