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By Mark Wilmoth An old Chinese proverb says, “He who asks a question seems a fool for a moment, but he who does not ask remains a fool for life.” One of my old math teachers put it more bluntly: ...

Country superstar Dierks Bentley returning with the album “Broken Branches” and Sydney Sweeney in the dark, dramatic thriller ...

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

After his resurrection, Jesus was with his disciples for 40 days. He used that time to tell them of important aspects of his kingdom yet to come. When he ascended up to heaven, two men in white ...

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your ...

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jerry Lundergan and his wife, Charlotte, helped break ground for a religious garden ...

An interesting development on Jerusalem's Temple Mount could be a sign that the return of Jesus Christ may be sooner than ...

The Face of Jesus” examines two images of Christ — the Shroud of Turin and the Veil of Manoppello — as well as the image of ...

Archaeologists believe the Bible meeting occurred inside a two-story building with limestone walls and a red roof that ...

Inside the evolving faith lives of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who had attended an Episcopal church in the months ...

Archaeologists uncovered hidden inscriptions and graffiti left by medieval pilgrims on the walls of the Cenacle, the site of Jesus’s Last Supper in Jerusalem. The messages, etched centuries ago ...