In the earliest Christian movement, there were actually many different writings circulated, and many traditions about the sayings of Jesus. Some of the leaders were concerned to say, "Well, which of ...

They did have problems because there are so many discrepancies among and between the gospel stories which they themselves could notice, but they had a hard time perhaps putting them all together in ...

The word "gospel" means "good news." There are four Gospels in the New Testament, which also contains 13 letters of Paul, eight other letters, the book of Acts and Revelation. These books comprise the ...

In a well-known talk, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addressed the dangers of a single story: about the tendency to collapse rich, diverse strands into a flat, one-sided narrative. This ...

It might seem something of a jump that we’ve gone from the beginning of Lent to Palm Sunday in one week. But — unless your parish has adult catechumens preparing for Baptism at the Easter Vigil (in ...

Mark’s account of Jesus’ ministry is the simplest and most straightforward of all four gospels. Scholars generally agree it was the first gospel to be written, probably sometime around A.D.