Many times, stories by Ernest Hemingway have religious influence and symbolism. In his story "The Old Man and the Sea," numerous occurrences in the life of Santiago the fisherman are similar to the incidents recorded in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The names of the characters translated from S...

Political Distortions and the Pharisees The Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke, known as the synoptic gospels, that is, "seeing together," were the first writings within the Christian Bible that would come to be referred to as the New Testament. These Gospels were very similar ...

The Case for Christ (Grand Rapids: Harper, Collins, Zondervan, 1998). The Case for Christ is a journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus. Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God, or was he crazy? Lee Strobel, a once professed ...

The Case for Christ (Grand Rapids: Harper, Collins, Zondervan, 1998). The Case for Christ is a journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus. Is there credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God, or was he crazy? Lee Strobel, a once professed ...

It is hard to imagine that a Jew started the first Christian church. It began with the calling of his disciples, an unlikely group of men whom he gathered together and taught about the kingdom of God. Becoming a follower of Christ was costly. Besides leaving their professions, they had to leave ...

Artist: Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) Title: Christ Presented to the People Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) was trained in Lombardy, but most of his career was spent in Siena, where he was, together with Beccafumi, an influential artist. This work dates from the last decade of his life. The u...