Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...

In building a biography of Jesus, we began last month by charting the years in which he lived. Now we move to Jesus’s family. But you already know Mary and Joseph from the Christmas story. What else ...

I grew up in the era of evangelistic T-shirts. I was too shy to wear any myself, but I had friends who did. “WWJD?” “Cross-trained.” “Made to worship.” “Be still and know.” One of the T-shirt slogans ...

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