Sunday is Religious Liberty Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. As the echoes of Fourth of July fireworks fade and we ...

“Now is the time” to proclaim a gospel that sets people free, activist and theologian Traci D. Blackmon told participants at ...

A priest is a humble servant, not a high and mighty ruler. Jesus explained this when his Apostles were striving for positions of power: “You know that those recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord ...

Finally, John’s birth and circumcision is itself described (1:57-80), crowned by Zechariah’s great canticle of joy, the ...

The Fall River Diocese shut down the St. John the Baptist Church in November of 2012, attributing the closure decision to declining Mass attendance, $1.5 million worth of needed repairs, and ...

In all four Gospel accounts, the role of John the Baptist is to proclaim and identify Jesus, who shortly after Jesus is baptized, is imprisoned by Herod Antipas.

Practically, Luke 3 indicates that Jesus listened to John the Baptist, who reminded Jesus of the prominence of Isaiah in Judaism. John urgently taught the crowd to repent. This means he implored ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (7News) — A local Virginia church is ending its contract with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts due to the center's new leadership. Alfred Street Baptist Church ...

John and Jesus are, of course, not the same person, but their connection is meaningful, and John’s death at the hands of powerful rulers in some ways foreshadows what is to come for Jesus.

An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a contemporary of Jesus. But testing ruled that out.