Thomas A. Dorsey, widely acknowledged as the father of gospel music, died Saturday night in his Chicago home. He was 93. As a blues piano player in Chicago in the 1930s, Mr. Dorsey first wove together ...

Q is the designation for a gospel that no longer exists, but many think must have existed at one time. In fact, even though no copy of this gospel has survived independently, some nineteenth-century ...

The Gospel of Thomas, an ancient manuscript featuring 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, paints a different picture of the religious leader than traditional gospels, coming amid reports that Jesus' ...

Stories about Jesus' birth are famous. But what about stories about Jesus' childhood? One early Christian text, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, invents some pretty crazy stories about the schoolboy ...

Thomas A Dorsey is credited with developing Gospel music into a global phenomenon. He started his own musical career in jazz clubs and blues bars, but personal tragedy led him back to church, and ...

When Oscar Cullman announced the discovery of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas (CHRISTIANITY TODAY, April 19, 1959, issue), popular newspapers and magazines spread sensational reports of the ...

Although Jesus movies aren’t often described as horror films or supernatural thrillers, the second-century text upon which ...