They also point to the little-known, somewhat disputed Secret Gospel of Mark, a text discovered in 1958 that at one point describes Jesus spending a night with a “naked” young man.

Some years ago, an essayist nicknamed this icon “Scary Jesus.” And it does seem to violate the canons of the Christian ...

The easiest response to AI Jesus is to say that the iconoclasts—the Christian icon-breakers who warned against or outright destroyed devotional images in eighth-century Byzantium and sixteenth ...

opinion Commentary. Jesus movies are successful. Are they Christian? There’s an underserved market for wholesome entertainment, but don’t confuse that with the gospel.

Even today, the question of sexualized religious images in art is alive and well. In early 2024, a “sexualized” painting of Jesus by Spanish artist Salustiano García Cruz was decried as ...

A religious icon depicting Jesus Christ is being sent around the Russian front line in Ukraine to bolster low morale, local media has reported. Ahead of Ukraine’s imminent counter offensives, ...

But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the “white whale” of Mormon history, the religious icon who gave birth to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A $100 million effort launched this year is blanketing cities and the web, aiming to redeem Jesus’ brand from the damage done by some of his followers. Billboards with messages like “Jesus let ...

T here are many signs that Christian entertainment is having a moment. But the biggest one is the beards, which are everywhere.Switch on “House of David”, a new series on Amazon Prime Video ...