The New Testament presents the Pharisees as a group that vehemently opposed the ministry of Jesus. Yet, a select few among ...

Saint Paul authored more epistles in the New Testament than any other apostle. Most of Christian theology builds on his ...

In the fundamentalist Christian circles in which I was raised, we often joked about the Sadducees. They were “sad, you see” ...

This passage follows a text where Paul speaks about all he had gained according to the flesh, being a Hebrew and a Pharisee. However, he now considers this gain to be loss and refuse, compared to ...

Paul’s story begins in enmity to Jesus. As Saul, he was a prominent Pharisee and had a leading role in persecuting ... James and John In Jesus’s day, Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees were esteemed in ...

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a "misreading" that has often come back to haunt Jews come ...

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...