A depiction of the risen Christ appearing to his disciples in a fresco from the Grand Cloister of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. Photo by the Rev. Lawrence Lew, OP/Flickr/Creative Commons ...

On Friday, we walked to Calvary with Hans Küng as our guide on the passion and death of Jesus, his reflections in On Being a Christian pointing us to the critical, yet often scuttled, fact: Jesus died ...

It seems to be one of the favorite pastimes of extreme biblical skeptics to peruse the Gospel accounts of the resurrection of Jesus and events surrounding it, in order to “identify” and challenge ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Resurrection is supposed to mean a new world. Easter is supposed to mark a new beginning, a new creation—the old passing away, all things reborn. How do the first disciples respond to Christ’s triumph ...

For the last 2,000 years, many have tried to deny the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. The reason is that people understand that the resurrection validates the Man and His message. If Jesus rose, ...

“The Gospels mention various appearances of the risen Christ, but not a meeting between Jesus and his Mother. This silence must not lead to the conclusion that after the Resurrection Christ did not ...

Jesus never left Jerusalem in human form. He entered the city on a donkey and ascended back into heaven, weeks later, from Jerusalem. Ancient Jerusalem is where it began and ended. Jerusalem was the ...

What more can be said about Easter, other than those remarkable three words? Maybe it would help to, as spiritual directors like to say, “unpack” each word. To talk about “Christ” means of course to ...

Easter for faithful Christians is not about bunnies and the bloom of spring. It is about the resurrection of Jesus Christ as something infinitely greater. How important is it? In what is likely the ...