(RNS) — In a new book, Diana Butler Bass says our understanding of Jesus needs to be informed by personal experience. (RNS) — My earliest memory of Jesus is as a Sunday school flannelgraph cut-out. I ...

The song “Personal Jesus” by Depeche Mode describes the faith of many: “Your own personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers. Someone who cares.” In this post, John Suk, a professor of homiletics at ...

There are two classic versions of “Personal Jesus” in the world: Depeche Mode‘s original, the hit first single from 1990’s Violator, and Johnny Cash‘s version from 2002’s American IV: The Man Comes ...

A Protestant in one of the Facebook groups I am part of, observed (paraphrased): The emphasis of Catholics is for you to join their Church. But the emphasis of Protestants is to want others to ...

Christmas is bound to produce a few questions about Jesus Christ – as was the case with a recent article on The Conversation on the lack of evidence for a “historical Jesus”. Such questions bleed in ...