The crucifixion of Christ is one of the most famous stories in the Bible but author Julian Doyle has questioned much of what ...

The image is probably the earliest representation of Jesus on the cross, and predates by about 200 years the Christian 5th-century depictions of the crucifixion featuring a loincloth. Third ...

Eventually, Emperor Constantine put an end to crucifixion as a method of execution, not for ethical reasons, but out of respect for Jesus. But in the end, it is the enduring image of the cross ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.

I propose that a particularly relevant image for our time is the helplessness of Jesus on the cross. The cross was not simply torture, humiliation and shame; it was also total and abject helplessness.

Eight people in a rural village in the Philippines reenacted the crucifixion of Jesus on Friday ... being crucified — and they stayed on the cross for about 10 minutes. Others walked barefoot ...

“From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land,” reads one translation of Matthew 27:45 — a Gospel verse describing the surreal skies as Jesus hung on the cros ...