Whatever the historical reasons for the crucifixion, the Christian tradition has always insisted that one of the reasons ...

The term “Good” as applied to Good Friday is an Old English expression meaning holy. It’s often called Holy Friday also. But ...

Jesus Christ, the God, the creator of the universe, took humanity to redeem mankind from the sin inherited by the ...

Jesus’s Way of the Cross came to life in a dramatic way on Good Friday at St. Martin of Tours Parish in Gaithersburg, ...

The Bible's account of the crucifixion of Jesus contains a puzzling detail: he died on the cross before the two criminals crucified beside him. Now, a medical study examining historical records and ...

The crucifixion is apparently under review. In his doctoral thesis, newly graduated Swedish theologian Gunnar Samuelsson argues that the cross Jesus supposedly died on may not actually have been a ...

On Good Friday, one man walked free while Jesus Christ was sent to the cross. His name was Barabbas. History remembers the ...

It is known that the death of Jesus Christ occurred somewhere between AD 30 and AD 33. But how exactly did he die?

Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill explores the brutal reality of Jesus's crucifixion and the certainty of his death, as witnessed by all.

(RNS) — In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased. (RNS) — When he ...

The Israelites understood this from the Torah – which now is part of the Bible’s Old Testament. As God told Moses in ...