If you drive east from Jerusalem today, the land drops fast. Within an hour the green hills give way to...

The Nativity story is the most told story in the world — and the most misremembered. Christmas cards show a...

The name means “oil press.” Gethsemane comes from the Hebrew words for “press” and “oils,” and the garden at the...

Every Jewish family in first-century Jerusalem knew the Passover meal by heart. The roasted lamb, the unleavened bread, the bitter...

Isaiah called it “Galilee of the nations” — or, in the older translation, “Galilee of the Gentiles” (Isaiah 9:1). The...

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, and — if the Gospels are any guide — He made His...

John 9 reads like a courtroom drama. A man born blind is healed, and instead of a celebration, there is...

Rome is the city the Bible never explains. It never tells us how Rome began, what its name means, or...

Stand on the Mount of Olives today and you look across the Kidron Valley at the Temple Mount, the Old...

In the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, a linen cloth is kept in a sealed case....