(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 ...

When Mel Gibson responded to critics of his blockbuster The Passion of the Christ by saying they had a “problem with the four Gospels,” not with his film, he was staking a claim to authenticity: My ...