Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...

After 14 years of research, Hurston concluded that his most heinous act – the Massacre of the Innocents, as recorded in Matthew’s Gospel – did not actually take place, and that Herod ...

As Christmas trees were incinerated in a giant bonfire in Ogden Dunes, Daina Lattimer and her daughter Vaiva Lattimer, 11, ...

This week the story of an anxious hedgehog and a biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm captured critics' attention.

The wise men in today's gospel reading are often depicted in our cribs and carols as kings. However, the gospel describes ...

Noa Cohen, the young Israeli actress who plays Jesus’s mother in the Netflix movie Mary, said she received multiple death ...

The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphany/the Baptism of Christ in this Year C is Luke 3.15–17, 21–22. We have recently been exploring Luke 3 during Advent, having read the first ...

Herod Agrippa I, grandson of Herod the Great, persecuted the church in Jerusalem and had the apostle James put to death. Agrippa’s son, Herod Agrippa II, was the one who saved Paul from being ...

Israeli actress Noa Cohen, known for her role as the mother of Jesus in the Netflix film «Mary», has disclosed receiving ...

No matter what this year already looks like for you, no matter how hopeful or discouraged you may be feeling, no matter how ...

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying .Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in ...

Scholar and editor, Deborah G. Plant, shares with NPR the process of rescuing Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel, "The Life of Herod the Great." ...